We could have given them to the Chinese for free.

...and at the price of $200M the residents of Palau are not happy with Muslim terrorists moving into their population.

Ummm... not to ask the obvious...

But how do you know they are muslim terrorists?

Without a trial of any sort, and given that some of the individuals were simply "handed over to us"... it seems you are getting a little ahead of yourself.

they look like Muslim terrorist....

Save the money. Give them visas and government jobs in DC.

They are Chinese Muslim terrorists. Obama won't send them back to China because the Chinese would execute them because they are TERRORISTS.

How do you know they are terrorists?

Just because China might mistreat them?

To be fair it should be 17 guys in the pool racking up the $200M bill....

#7 Man, can't you see that you were defeated with inescapable (albeit tautological) reasoning in #6? Lie down. Stay down. Wait until the ref counts to 10.

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BTW, $200 million is probably less than we'd end up having to pay God knows whom for God knows what after they got returned and executed. But I digress.

The news article I read on the matter said they were Chinese Muslim Separatists, who want to succeed from China and form their own little country in Western China.

It also said that the $200 million from the U.S. to Palau was already coming due before the issue of the detainees was brought up and into the matter by Palau.

I think there may be a whole lot more to this that hasn't come out yet!

These Chinese Muslim separatists were training/fighting in Afghanistan.

The Chinese government doesn't care for Chinese Muslim separatists. They tend to be shot on sight.

Muslim Extremist - Check

Al Qaida Terrorist Training - Check

Caught on the battlefield - Check

Classified by another country as Terrorists - Check

If it walks like a duck. It must be what its quacked up to be!

Administration speeds overseas detainee relocation

Published - Jun 12 2009 11:02PM EDT

By DEVLIN BARRETT and MATTHEW LEE - Associated Press Writers

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"The Uighurs were determined not to be enemy combatants by the Pentagon and ordered released by a federal judge. But few nations have been willing to accept them, out of fear of angering China's government, which accuses them of being terrorists and demands they be returned to China."

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Give them trials? military tribunals maybe. The NYTimes does a good job of releasing our tactics on finding these wonderful people, we don't need to help them with trials in the US that will allow defendants access to info that need not see the light of day.

9. Author: pacman357

no offense, but i thought victor was 2 up.

Muslim Extremist - Check

- well, they are likely muslim extremists... but that's no more a crime than being a christian extremist

Al Qaida Terrorist Training - Check

- Do you know this for a fact? I haven't been following it, but haven't heard anything about them being at Al Quaeda training camps. Cite your evidence.

Caught on the battlefield - Check

- ???? I have not seen any articles saying these people were caught at a battlefield. Do we even know if WE caught them, or if they were sold to us?

Classified by another country as Terrorists - Check

- China is your new yardstick by which to measure human rights? Well... good for you.

I agree with Victor. We should save the bribe money and repatriate these individuals back to China.