[Peace-discuss] Durbin: no need for Gitmo when we can just drone 'em

[Robert Naiman]

[...]
Durbin, meanwhile, suggested that there was no need to worry about
releasing Guantanamo detainees, because the U.S. could always kill them
using drones if necessary – as happened earlier this year with Saeed
al-Shihri, a top operative in al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. It was an
unintentionally revealing statement that gave credence to human rights
advocates' belief that Obama and his Congressional allies favor killing
terror suspects over detaining them.
[...]

- "Senate Looks At Closing Guantanamo, But Will It Really Happen?"
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/senate-looks-at-closing-guantanamo-but-will-it-really-happen-20130725<http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/senate-looks-at-closing-guantanamo-but-will-it-really-happen-20130725#ixzz2aFm48DL0>

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Robert Naiman
Policy Director
Just Foreign Policy
www.justforeignpolicy.org
naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
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