The King told a top White House aide, John o. Brennan, that the United States should implant is an electronic chip in each prisoner to track his movements, which is sometimes performed with horses and Falcons.
"Horses need good lawyers," said Mr Brennan.
That was unusual discussion in March 2009 among hundreds portrayed in a cache of secret State Department cables produced by WikiLeaks and made available for a number of news organizations that reveals the painstaking efforts of the United States to safely reduce the population of Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, so it will eventually be closed.
American diplomats went looking for countries which were not only willing to take in the former prisoners but also could be trusted to keep them in full.In a Global Bazaar of sorts the US officials-sweet talked and haggled with their foreign counterparts in an effort to resettle the prisoners who had been cleared for release, but could not for the repatriation of the fears of abuse, the cables Show.
Slovenia, is seeking a meeting with President Obama, were encouraged to "do more" on the prisoner resettlement, if it wanted to attract attention from the overlying "Washington"; its Prime Minister, later "linked to the acceptance of the prisoners to ', a 20-minute meeting with the President '", but the session — and prisoner transfer — never happened.Maldives bound acceptance of prisoners to American help in obtaining THE IMF assistance, while the Bush administration offered the Pacific nation of Kiribati "an incentive package" of $ 3 million to take 17 Chinese Muslim prisoners, cables show. in discussions about creating a rehabilitation program for its own citizens, President of Yemen repeatedly asked Mr Brennan, "how many dollars will bring the United States?"
Mr. Obama won praise from all over the world when, shortly after the Office in 2009, he ordered the Guant?namo Bay prison closed within a year says, it was in conflict with the American values, and a symbol for terrorist propaganda.
By then, the Bush Administration had already transferred more than 500 pasted it had sent to Guantanamo Bay, and the Obama administration has since winnowed the population to 174 from 240, with help from Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Belgium and other countries.But Mr Obama missed its deadline, and the goal is faded as a priority, with domestic opposition to move some detainees to a prison inside the United States and other countries which condemned Guant?namo Bay prison reluctant to take in the detainees.
While Mr Obama went to Norway to collect a Nobel Prize, for example, is called the Norwegians resettle Guantanamo prisoners ' clean.the responsibility of the U.S.. "Germany and several other European countries, who had criticized prison finally accepted a few prisoners, but balked at takes as many as United States had hoped.
In the autumn of 2009, Lithuania's newly elected President backed out of her country previous agreement to resettle a prisoner tekstombrydningsfunktionen a tumult of reports that the Central Intelligence Agency had run a secret prison in Lithuania. the Lithuanian Parliament National Security Committee Chairman, private apologized and suggested using the mutual allies to pressure her to reconsider, cables show.
Other items highlighted difficulties of the Uighurs, a Muslim Chinese resettlement prisoners who had ordered freed by a federal judge. China was considered likely to abuse them, but the Beijing required their return.
Meeting an October 2009 in Beijing be linked to an official Chinese Uighurs American hopes to ensure supply routes through the China of the Afghan war, says, "more prudent actions from the United States on Guant?namo Uighurs would help remove some of the obstacles on the Chinese side to help with downloads."
And an aide to the Prime Minister of Finland's trusted in August 2009 "to Chinese diplomats in Helsinki has repeatedly warned them of the damage on the bilateral relations of Finland should accept any the Uighurs," said, a cable.
Still, some allies was eager to help. After accepting five Chinese Muslims in 2006, offered to the Prime Minister of Albania in 2009 to rehouse three to six prisoners not from China. American diplomats portrayed his offer as "gracious, but probably extravagant."
"As always, the Albanians are willing to go the extra mile to assist with one of our central foreign policy priorities," said a cable.
United States repatriated other prisoners for prosecution at home. Afghanistan, however, be granted pretrial releases to 29 out of 41 such former prisoners from Guantanamo, allows "dangerous individuals to go free or re-enter, the battlefield without ever facing an Afghan Court" diplomats in Kabul, complained in a July 2009 cable.
Charlie Savage reported from Washington and Andrew w. Lehren from New York.
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