EU May Take Dozens of Gitmo Detainees

Cully Stimson / June 04, 2009

According to an AP story today reprinted in the Miami Herald, European Union countries are likely to take in several dozen Guantanamo Bay detainees. Czech Interior Minister Martin Pecina spoke for the 27-nation bloc of interior ministers saying that it would be up to each individual government to decide whether to participate.

This is welcome news, if it comes to pass.

It is also one piece of a broader strategy to close the facility that both the Bush & Obama administrations’ have been working on for some time. (more…)