the sand, the beaches, the Gitmo terrorists free as birds:
Bermuda has been thrust into an international political firestorm by allowing four former prisoners of Guantanamo Bay to take refuge on the island. The move is likely to garner favour with President Obama, who has been desperate to find homes for former inmates after promising to close Guantanamo by January.
However, the Chinese government is furious, and says the U.S. should extradite what it calls “suspected terrorists” to China. The British Government, and Governor Sir Richard Gozney, are also less than impressed, and say Bermuda should have consulted with them before giving the four men a home.
It gets better in the Q & A:
Will the men be under any restrictions in Bermuda?
No. They will be free members of society, helped to gain employment and found housing.
So if you are a US tourist on the tiny Island of Bermuda (20.6 sq miles) with a population smaller than Fitchburg and Leominster combined you chances of sharing a town with a Gitmo terrorist are excellent.
Boy that’s exactly where I want to take my wife and kids, where they can mix with ex-gitmo inmates with no restrictions and pay for the right to do so. That makes for such a relaxing vacation.
The Bermuda sun is all over this.
If I’m Jamaica or the Virgin Islands I’m sending thank you cards to the Bermuda government for this one.
Via media blog.
Update: Hotair notes that England was kept in the dark:
They talked to them “before the Uighurs got on the plane”? Well, that was certainly sweet of them. Did they mention on which flight they’d be coming to Bermuda, or did they make the Brits guess that, too?
It’s a highly unusual move, all right. I don’t recall the last time an ally sent trained terrorists into a territory for which the other ally had responsibility for security without their permission. Why? Because it hasn’t ever happened before now.
These guys are really slick.
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