Blog Round-Up 11/10

November 10, 2009  |  Posted by Danielle Belton

Here’s the rundown on what's being talked about on other blogs about Guantanamo Bay:

Guest columnist Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham gives his piece on the Senate’s rejection of Sen. Lindsey Graham's amendment that would have made it illegal to try 9/11 terrorism suspects on U.S. soil. Abraham is for suspects being tried in federal courts. (Jurist)

Blogger Andy Worthington writes how it makes more sense to "scrap" military commissions for terrorism suspects rather than try to make military courts more like civil ones, as the Obama Administration is trying to do. (t r u t h o u t)

Human Rights First's Sharon Kelly declares that the "tide is turning in the fight to close Guantanamo" on the heels of the Senate voting to defeat the Graham Amendment. (Human Rights First Blog)

Also, in exciting news, Amherst, Mass. voted to allow the resettlement of wrongfully imprisoned Guantanamo Bay detainees in their town. They were specifically looking at the cases of a Russian and an Algerian who are currently being held in the prison camp, have been cleared, but have no country to return to. The group No More Guantanamos helped push the debate.

Joanne Mariner, director of the counterterrorism program at Human Rights Watch, said allowing cleared Gitmo detainees to relocate there said this would help encourage other countries to take former prisoners if we were willing to accept some on our own.

"In terms of a statement of public willingness, I think it's quite important," she said. "The best way to convince European countries to take more detainees would be for us to take a few ourselves." (Christian Science Monitor)

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