April 25, 2009
11:10 am
Families
U.S. Lawyers to meet Sudan Gitmo detainee families
Lawyers from the Pentagon's legal office will meet with families of Sudanese Guantanamo detainees to discuss how they might be released, a Sudanese foreign ministry official said Friday."They are here to collect information for their (the prisoners') civil defense to facilitate their release," said Mohammed Omar, who heads the consulates and expatriates section at the foreign ministry. Since taking office in January, U.S. President Barack Obama has ordered the closing down of the prison camp at the Guantanamo military base in Cuba. The United States imposed economic sanctions on Sudan in 1997 and labeled it a "state sponsor of terrorism." Ties were strained further by the conflict in Darfur, which both Obama and his predecessor George W. Bush have called genocide, a description Sudan's government rejects.Obama has said the United States will seek a way to restart talks between rebels in Darfur and the Khartoum government.
Cuba and the U.S. really have issues that they need to work out. I feel like they need to talk to everyone and come up with a plan that not only discusses how they might be released but what happens after they are released.
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