[Peace-discuss] Let's bring the Uighurs to Urbana

[Stuart Levy]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 09:48:23AM -0500, Robert Naiman wrote:
> What do you think? There's only 17 of them. We could ask the mosque to
> find them homestays till they get settled. We could try get them jobs
> at the University. I think they'd make a great contribution to our
> community. It would put Urbana on the map. :)

What a cool idea!

My main question would be language.  Do we have other local Uighur speakers?
Is there any reason to think they would speak other languages (Chinese?)? 

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> 
> USA Today
> March 19, 2009
> Pg. 5
> 
> Holder: Detainees Could Be Let Into U.S.
> 
> Some Chinese Muslim detainees at Guantanamo Bay could be released in
> the United States, Attorney General Eric Holder said. He was asked by
> reporters whether members of a group of Uighurs at the U.S. military
> detention facility in Cuba could be released on U.S. soil. "I don't
> know. We're trying to come up with places for them," he said.
> 
> He added later: "The possibility exists."
> 
> The U.S. has cleared 17 of the Uighurs for release from Guantanamo but
> insists it will not hand them over to China because the Uighurs fear
> they will be tortured. A federal judge in October ordered that the 17
> men be allowed to enter the U.S. over the objections of the Bush
> administration. Last month, a federal appeals court overruled that
> decision, saying the 17 must stay at Guantanamo. The men were captured
> in Pakistan and Afghanistan in 2001.
> 
> -- 
> Robert Naiman
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