35 Guantánamo Detainees Are Given to Pakistan

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 - The Pentagon announced on Saturday that it had transferred 35 detainees from the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to Pakistani custody, as part of a continuing effort by the Bush administration to reduce the number of prisoners at the naval base there.

Under the terms of the transfer, which a Pentagon spokesman said Saturday had already been completed, Pakistan will hold 29 of the detainees while releasing another six. Pakistani officials said the detainees, 34 Pakistanis and one Afghan, arrived there late Saturday, Agence France-Presse reported. A Pentagon spokesman refused to confirm whether one of the released detainees was from Afghanistan.

The transfers came after extended negotiations between the Bush administration and the Pakistani government. The two governments have been talking since March about how to accomplish the release of Pakistani detainees, officials said.

"This is part of our effort to return a large number of Guantánamo detainees to their home countries," a State Department official familiar with the talks said Saturday.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/19/politics/19gitmo.html?ex=1253246400&en=867ab584c7e4efba&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland

[whistle]

1. Oh, that's a nice touch, out-sourcing to save money

[amber dog democrat]

2. Detainees Are Given to Pakistan

to be tortured and executed there instead.
Its neater that way.
creates jobs overseas.

[saigon68]

3. They will be killed

Its the Amerikan way