Sorry For the Detainment, Here's a Laptop

A select group of 17 Uighur Muslims held in Guantánamo, and waiting for a nation to grant them asylum are getting laptops and web training from the US military. Their web training will take place in a virtual computer lab the military has set up. The lessons will be limited to DVD language training as well as a basic users skill — set to help in any future employment options. Nury Turkel, an Uighur rights activist, said the training would help the men "be reintroduced into a modern society," adding that it "also would give hope to the men that their freedom is nearing." This special group already gets to order fast food and use a phone booth for weekly calls. I think the government is on to something here. Nothing keeps a man pacified like an occasional phone call, a cheeseburger, and surfing for a little porn.

Comments

Re:Porn

[gmuslera]

If they want to see 70+ virgins they should just surf slashdot. Oh, wait, you mean female virgins?

Re:These ARE FUCKING TERRORISTS what don't you get

[Beezlebub33]

anyone who loves America and the principles for which it once stood should be clamouring to have everyone either tried in public in the normal American system of courts, or released.

Released where? That's the question. At this point, we'd love to release the Uighurs; should we 'release' them in China? They'd be tortured. And we'd love to release lots and lots of Yeminis. Should we release them into Cuba? Or into the Atlantic? Or Miami? How about into your neighborhood?

Your post seems like someone who's really pissed at the current situation, which is well and truly screwed up, but doesn't have a solution to solve it. The current Adminstration is working to get many of these people asylum in various countries, but they don't want them, and it appears that they don't want to come to the US, and the Congresscritters certainly don't want them to come to the US. So, it's going to take a while.