Guantanamo not so bad

The Pentagon wants to get rid of a number of Guatanamo detainees by sending them to Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Afganistan. Imprisonment in these countries will not be pleasant:

The Pentagon is planning to transfer half the inmates at Guantánamo Bay to prisons in Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Yemen, despite fears that they would face even worse human rights abuses than at the US camp.

The "keep them at GTMO" outcry has aleady started

Michael Rattner, president of the Centre for Constitutional Rights, which represents many of the Guantánamo detainees, said: "Now that they have put themselves in this pickle of picking up many people who were not involved in terrorism, and keeping them for two or three years and abusing them in a number of cases, what are they going to do with them? Send them back to countries where governments are known to be involved in torture, with a label of terrorist practically around their neck?

"We don't want people rendered, or given their so-called freedom from Guantánamo, and then jailed in a country where they are going to be tortured."

Funny how things change.