Yemen urges U.S. to shut Guantanamo to win good-will

Source: Reuters

Sat Jan 12, 2008 12:29pm EST

SANAA (Reuters) - Yemen has called on the United States to free all detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, saying the move would generate global good-will towards Washington.

About 100 Yemenis are being held at Guantanamo, making them the biggest group among the approximately 275 detainees there, according to Yemen's media ...

Saleh said Yemen would study charges against the detainees and prosecute them under Yemeni laws.

A Yemeni official told Reuters that a security team from Yemen would visit Guantanamo and meet with the detainees in early February ...

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSL1220055920080112

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Most of Yemeni Guantanamo detainees did not commit any crimes, says American lawyer
11 January 2008

SANA'A, Jan. 11 (Saba)- Most of Yemeni detainees in Guantanamo Bay did not commit any crimes, the American lawyer and head of US Reprieve organization Clive Smith has said.

"I apologize as an American for Yemeni people for the horrible acts against Yemeni detainees in Guantanamo," he added.

In an interview with 26September weekly, Smith said: "We, as lawyers, want to offer legal assistance to reduce suffering of these people and help the Yemeni society and government to resolve their cases and insure their coming back to their homeland."

He called on Yemeni government and the civil society organizations as well as American and European lawyers to return these people back to their homeland ...

http://www.sabanews.net/en/news144822.htm

I bet you couldn't even pay these f***ers enough to shut down their little torture sideline.