This undated image provided by the counsel to Saifullah Paracha shows Paracha at the Guantanamo Bay detention center. Paracha the oldest prisoner at the Guantanamo Bay detention center went to his latest review board hearing with a degree of hope, an emotion that has been scarce during his 16 years locked up without charge at the U.S. base in Cuba.
President Donald Trump had effectively ended the Obama administration’s practice of reviewing the cases of men held at Guantanamo and releasing them if imprisonment was no longer deemed necessary. Now there’s hope that will resume under Biden.“I am more hopeful now simply because we have an administration to look forward to that isn’t dead set on ignoring the existing review process,” Paracha’s attorney, Shelby Sullivan-Bennis, said by phone from the base on Nov. 19 after the hearing.
His reticence is actually welcome to those who have pressed to close Guantanamo. Obama’s early pledge to close it is now seen as a strategic mistake that undercut what had been a bipartisan issue. The Obama administration, seeking to allay concerns that some of those released had “returned to the fight,” set up a process to ensure those repatriated or resettled in third countries no longer posed a threat. It also planned to try some of the men in federal court.
Commission proceedings, including death penalty cases related to the Sept. 11 attacks, have bogged down as the defense fights to exclude evidence that resulted from torture. Trials are likely far in the future and would inevitably be followed by years of appeals. The remaining detainees include five who had been cleared for release before Trump took office and have languished since. Advocates want the Biden administration to review the rest, noting that many, had they been convicted in federal court, would have served their sentences and been released at this point.
Im leaving, on a jet plane Don't know when Ill be back again Of course you want it closed Joseph. You shouldn't be shot - I don't support the death penalty Just made to work for us, for a long long time.
Omg!! Stop!!!’
Put them in his family neighborhood
Please tell me will keep that open long enough to take all the treasonous Americans for their trials and whatever sentence they receive
what about the kids in cages
Probably. If there's one president that can get suckered into that, it's Biden.
Lol. You voted for BIDEN. Good luck on any of his promises. Hahaha. Pretty much just voted Obama into office.
Or he could just close gitmo and release em all....
So where do you release the terrorist at, your neighbor?
Obama paid lip service to closing it but never did. Biden will do the same because those that are being kept there are way worse 'bad dudes' than 'cornpop' ever was!
Yeah that's what Obama said too
Why do democrats support and admire terrorists?
I heard he wants to give them all citizenship. All the shitlibs would be waiting for them at the airport with signs - 'Gitmo Detainees Welcome!'
Obama said the same thing for eight years, it was one of my biggest disappointments of his administration.
Why hope? They just get transferred to a prison in the US
Cannot wait to get back to Jihad. Bad idea. Shoukd of been shot when captured. That is what they will do to you.
So they can make more trouble and then justify blowing up people in the middle east? Bet the military-industrial complex would love that!
I guess we should expect an uptick in terrorism.
Has anyone seen gitmo bay Cuba on the map. It has expanded Hmmmm I wander why
I’m old enough to remember when Obama said he’d close it.
I could care less if those 41 have a “degree of hope”.
That they can turn back to a life of crime and religious fulfillment against the US...
there's a senator for Illinois who said Illinois would take them
Were they there during obama?
Has anyone thought where the 41 men from Guantanamo Bay are going to GO
41 votes is 41 votes in his eyes.
sO dId ObAmA
BidenCheated and we all know it
Biden will be a permanent resident there if the Truth comes out about this election
Hahahahaha let us chill dude, obama said the same thing. Yeah, guantanamo won’t close.
Says something when the terrorists are happy for you JoeBiden .......🤷🏼♂️
Deal with the fraud for if its left to us, we will deal with yall too
AP has long been transformed from a news providing agency into a views providing agency
What a nice place for Donald Trump to be!
Close it and just house Donald Trump and his administration there! I think that would be an excellent idea! Find the guilty ones and ship them there! McConnell and Graham could join them! It would be FUN!
Have these men been tried and convicted? If yes, then fine. If they haven't been tried...what are they still doing there?
BidenCheated
Ya don't land in Gitmo because you were jaywalking. There are 41 men still there for a very good reason
What!
lol remember when Obama ran on closing it?
Hold up, not so fast. Leave it open! A lot of criminals to lock up after all the election fraud and they need a HUGE place to store them all. With the Biden’s it’s a toss between here & Ukraine.
Boring now. Biden won. End of. How about something else? Fact 1 = Biden supported the UK in 1982 against Argentina, when Dublin did not Fact 2 = ‘82 was not the first time the USA was involved in a Falklands dispute Lexington Raid 1831 anyone?
No more cock meat sandwiches
You mean the illegal concentration camp where U.S keep it's hostages on illegally occupied Cuban land.
Give him time.
They’ve been hoping since 2008 🤣🤣
Great! Send them to Delaware
Good maybe they’ll be out for the 2024 election. Before giving them the keys to their new homes...Joe can drive them to motor vehicle office~ drivers license and voter registrations for all !!
Didn't you blame the French teacher for getting beheaded in broad daylight out in public by a Muslim who was offended in France?
Why would we release the worlds worst terrorists to go out and plot against us again?
Keep it open for Trump.
Here is Something the Men need to Know!
DiaperDon has effectively made every liberal in America MORE liberal after seeing his racist, misogynist, misanthropic, environment and wildlife-hating, views on display, no human would EVER want to be identified with THAT. GoodRiddanceTrump
Bummer, was thinking this would be a good place to send trump and his family.
41 terrorists you mean.
Why do we care about giving these men hope, again? Many that had been released returned to the battlefields against us.
Will they be released into the wilds?
Biden bigger fish to fry...!?
Close it after you fry them. They're terrorists
Hopefully just a filler issue. Way more important stuff to worry about. Keystone, selling oil rights in national parks to foriegn interest, repealing patriot act , re-instate laws prohibiting warrantless survailence. Lots lots more important stuff.
Hopefully the prisoners come to the USA and start killing some of those who voted for the old senile hag
AP has zero credibility.
Again BidenCheated puts America last!
Biden belongs there
Obama campaigned on closing it. Yet there it still stands. When the get into the Oval Office they must learn something we don't know.
Biden has NOT won the election. BidenCheats
A degree of hope Whose side are you on. Tell me the degree of hope the families have in ever seeing their loved ones again.
I worked 4 Seasons in Antarctica where US Marshalls were the law. If they can formalize there, they can normalize anywhere, trust me
Fact-check: given 8 years, Biden and Democrats did not do this. That’s public record
Obama said the same thing until he got into the job and realized what's actually going on and why the people are there. Hint: because they should be.
Barry and Joe said they were going to close it down on Day 1, back in 2008. He had 8 years. Also, it's great to see the ap so concerned about the well-being of 41 prisoners found guilty of trying to, or succeeding in killing our citizens. Whose side are you on ap?
Yeah for sure close it. But I have zero sympathy for anyone in there. Fuck ‘em
When is Obama going to close it down?
Please keep open until after trial+ sentencing of Trump&Co.
Will BidenCheated go there? Asking for a friend
Doubtful, these people are supposed to be those who are unforgiving about their actions and part in killing others in the name of terror, and who supposedly want to continue after released from any detention center, unless Biden wants to soil his past any more, he'll keep it open
...shouldn’t it depend on what they did to be held there in the first place?
US should close all jails and free all HailBiden
The terrorists still held there
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So did Obama
No so fast slick 😂 bidencheats
The good news is, since 80 million people voted for him, he can do whatever he wants with it!
Supporting terrorist is bad mmmkkkk
Hope that they are released to reoffend.
His former boss said that he’d close it too and he never did. I never forgot that.
Да, надо ускоряться... сколько ещё дел надо успеть до января...
Do not close gitmo.
hey theres some common ground
Didn't know people are still there.
Why in tf are there still 41 prisoners there?
Doubt it. Obama and trump failed both them. hard to imagine Biden will be any less of a spineless coward than Obama and trump when it comes to our barbaric approach to foreign policy and criminal justice/prison reform
Keep it open and send Antifa/BLM there.
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