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Aust considers taking Guantanamo detainees by ABC

"The Federal Government is considering a request by the United States for Australia to resettle detainees from the Guantanamo Bay........

The detainees are 17 Uighurs, who are Muslims from north-western China. ........

They have been held for seven years at the prison camp, despite being cleared of links to terrorism.

A Pentagon report in February called for them to be urgently released, but the US Government fears they will face persecution if they return to China.

A spokesman for Kevin Rudd says the Government will consider the request on a case-by-case basis.--ABC

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I think we are in loss-loss situation if we are taking any of them.

Firstly, why not the American take them? The have held the "innocent people" for 7 years, or those people have been living in US I(actually in Cuba) for seven years, they should give them a green card on spot! Period!

Secondly if they are not the enemy of USA, but could be terrorists to other countries, it is OK to let them loose, every sent it over to a friend's house like our Aussie land, how nice! The only problem is they could be the enemy of another friend!

What if they are really terrorists? One thing I am pretty sure, they their odds is a lot higher than other citizen of the world including boat people, and might do more harm to our society them average people, simply judged by their willing to use arms and war-zone experiences.

We should tell our government to say No.