Why are terrorists headed for Palau Island?”
Palau Island get 17 terrorists plus US$200 million from Obama administration Posted: 10-06-2009 , 12:58 GMT The South Pacific island nation of Palau has agreed to accept an American offer to absorb 17 trained al-Qaeda members in exchange for some US$200 million. According to the AP, Palau will accept a group of Chinese Muslims who have been detained for years in Guantanamo Bay. Palau President Johnson Toribiong said on Wednesday his country will temporarily accept the Chinese in a gesture for the Obama administration. It should be noted that the Palau island consists of some 200 islands located in the western Pacific Ocean, 650 km southeast of the Philippines. Just less than 10 islands are permanently inhabited.
The Obama administration is nearing agreement with the remote Pacific island nation of Palau to resettle a group of Chinese Muslims now held at the Guantanamo Bay detention center, The Associated Press has learned. As they attempt to fulfill President Barack Obama’s order to close the Guantanamo facility by early next year, administration officials are looking to Palau to accept some or all of the 17 Uighur detainees due to fierce congressional opposition to releasing them on U.S. soil, officials said. A federal judge last year ordered them released into the United States after the Pentagon determined they were not “enemy combatants.” But an appeals court halted the order, and they have been in legal limbo since. Thus far no country has agreed to take any of the 17 individuals.
