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[The Good Reverend Roger]

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/31/22122273-guantanamo-bay-detainees-who-were-never-terrorism-suspects-get-new-lives-in-slovakia?lite

Three Guantanamo Bay detainees have been sent to Slovakia where they are "voluntarily resettling," officials said Tuesday.

Yusef Abbas, 33, Saidullah Khalik, 37, and Hajiakbar Abdul Ghuper, 39, are the final ethnic Uighur Chinese nationals to be transferred out of the facility in Cuba.

The Slovakian government said the men it accepted had "never been suspected nor accused of terrorism," the BBC reported. The country, which is a member of the European Union and NATO, also took in three Guantanamo inmates in 2010.

AND AND AND

In Oct. 2008, a federal judge ordered the release of the men, but the decision was stayed  by a federal appeals court after the government intervened. They had been in legal limbo since.

[Cain]

Ah yes, the near mythical East Turkestan Islamic Movement.

Of course, if I were a CIA strategist (and had my sense of conscience surgically removed and had no ability to see more than 10 years into the future and had no concept of blowback), I would also get these guys set free and put in some insignificant part of Europe - and then go back a few years later, and see if they could be used to recruit an external network for Islamist extremists targeting China.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/31/22122273-guantanamo-bay-detainees-who-were-never-terrorism-suspects-get-new-lives-in-slovakia?lite

Three Guantanamo Bay detainees have been sent to Slovakia where they are "voluntarily resettling," officials said Tuesday.

Yusef Abbas, 33, Saidullah Khalik, 37, and Hajiakbar Abdul Ghuper, 39, are the final ethnic Uighur Chinese nationals to be transferred out of the facility in Cuba.

The Slovakian government said the men it accepted had "never been suspected nor accused of terrorism," the BBC reported. The country, which is a member of the European Union and NATO, also took in three Guantanamo inmates in 2010.

AND AND AND

In Oct. 2008, a federal judge ordered the release of the men, but the decision was stayed  by a federal appeals court after the government intervened. They had been in legal limbo since.

great.

AMERICA!

[The Good Reverend Roger]

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/31/22122273-guantanamo-bay-detainees-who-were-never-terrorism-suspects-get-new-lives-in-slovakia?lite

Three Guantanamo Bay detainees have been sent to Slovakia where they are "voluntarily resettling," officials said Tuesday.

Yusef Abbas, 33, Saidullah Khalik, 37, and Hajiakbar Abdul Ghuper, 39, are the final ethnic Uighur Chinese nationals to be transferred out of the facility in Cuba.

The Slovakian government said the men it accepted had "never been suspected nor accused of terrorism," the BBC reported. The country, which is a member of the European Union and NATO, also took in three Guantanamo inmates in 2010.

AND AND AND

In Oct. 2008, a federal judge ordered the release of the men, but the decision was stayed  by a federal appeals court after the government intervened. They had been in legal limbo since.

great.

AMERICA!

"We don't suspect them of anything, but they're staying in jail because because."

This shit would gag Cardinal Richelieu.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

I started to type something or five different times, but I just don't have anything appropriate to the surreal shittiness of this.

[minuspace]

Ah yes, the near mythical East Turkestan Islamic Movement.

Of course, if I were a CIA strategist (and had my sense of conscience surgically removed and had no ability to see more than 10 years into the future and had no concept of blowback), I would also get these guys set free and put in some insignificant part of Europe - and then go back a few years later, and see if they could be used to recruit an external network for Islamist extremists targeting China.

Methinks that seems rather an overdetermination of requirements

[Cain]

Not in Langley, it's not.

[minuspace]

Oh my, guess it's time to run those assets through a Vegas convention again

[Junkenstein]

Nick Griffin of BNP "fame" bankrupt
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-25590155

"Being bankrupt does NOT prevent me being or standing as an MEP. It does free me from financial worries."

He probably should have consolidated his debt into a single easy monthly repayment. Or maybe that's what he did. Either way old idiot eye continues to amuse.

[Random Probability]

Ah yes, the near mythical East Turkestan Islamic Movement.

Of course, if I were a CIA strategist (and had my sense of conscience surgically removed and had no ability to see more than 10 years into the future and had no concept of blowback), I would also get these guys set free and put in some insignificant part of Europe - and then go back a few years later, and see if they could be used to recruit an external network for Islamist extremists targeting China.

Methinks that seems rather an overdetermination of requirements

Speaking of which, does anybody else remember the big "jail break" that occurred a suspicious amount of time after the Snowden leak?

[minuspace]

Ah yes, the near mythical East Turkestan Islamic Movement.

Of course, if I were a CIA strategist (and had my sense of conscience surgically removed and had no ability to see more than 10 years into the future and had no concept of blowback), I would also get these guys set free and put in some insignificant part of Europe - and then go back a few years later, and see if they could be used to recruit an external network for Islamist extremists targeting China.

Methinks that seems rather an overdetermination of requirements

Speaking of which, does anybody else remember the big "jail break" that occurred a suspicious amount of time after the Snowden leak?

Melancholy and depth are concordant...  that memory is the depth of science

[Cain]

Speaking of which, does anybody else remember the big "jail break" that occurred a suspicious amount of time after the Snowden leak?

I do.  My thoughts were recruitment for a bit of fun in Syria...or the Iranian eastern border.  US allies, notably Jordan (and so probably Saudi Arabia) have access to these facilities.

Just by coincidence, Al-Qaeda in Iraq and al-Sharm is now the most powerful Al-Qaeda faction in the world and a new, previously unheard of but suspiciously cohesive Sunni group is attacking military checkpoints in Iranian Baluchistan.

[Junkenstein]

Nothing totally suspicious here at all:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25598791

A world-renowned hacker, who died in San Francisco in July, overdosed on a mix of heroin, cocaine and other drugs, a coroner's report shows.

New Zealand-born Barnaby Jack was found dead in his bed a week before he was scheduled to give a talk at an event.

An autopsy revealed that "acute mixed drug intoxication" led to his death, San Francisco's medical examiner said.

Mr Jack rose to fame after a 2010 demonstration, in which he hacked a cash machine, making it give out money.

The technique was dubbed "Jackpotting".

Mr Jack's death occurred shortly before he was due to demonstrate how heart implants could be hacked at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas.

He had said one technique could kill a man from 30 feet (nine metres) away.

Really hard not to suspect something foul afoot here, particularly given his areas of interest.

[Trivial]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/06/satanic-temple-unveils-7-foot-goat-headed-baphomet-statue-for-oklahoma-capitol/

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/06/satanic-temple-unveils-7-foot-goat-headed-baphomet-statue-for-oklahoma-capitol/

You know, I can't even tell what's satire and what's real anymore.