By: Brionna Givens
A third request has been sent to Australia asking them to take in some Gitmo detainees according to Stephen Smith, Australia's Foreign Minister. The detainees that are in question are ten Uighurs, Muslims from northwestern China. They have been in Gitmo for six years. The US will not allow them to live in the US even though they are not considered enemy combatants anymore. Also the US will not send them back to China for fear that they will be tortured and executed. Stephen Smith stated that the Australian government will "consider these on a case-by-case basis". But an Australian opposition leader, Malcolm Turnbull said "Australia should not accept any former terror suspects that the United States is not prepared to take in."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090531/ap_on_re_as/as_australia_guantanamo_detainees
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