Children play in Ngerkebesang, Palau. The tiny island republic, a former U.S. territory, has only 20,000 year-round residents and is heavily dependent on eco-tourism.
June 14, 2009
The laid-back island republic is unaccustomed to geopolitics, and some question why the U.S. is sending them Chinese Muslims. But others say their culture is welcoming to foreigners.
AP Interview: Detainee move to Palau is tentative
By TOMOKO A. HOSAKA
KOROR, Palau (AP) — The president of Palau is flattered by all the publicity he's had since agreeing to take in more than a dozen Guantanamo detainees, but he said Saturday their transfer is not a done deal.
China Protests Moving of Detainees
Pool photograph by Brennan Linsley
By ANDREW JACOBS and SHARON OTTERMAN
Published: June 11, 2009
BEIJING — The Chinese government protested Thursday over the decision by the American government to resettle a group of Chinese Muslims to the isolated archipelago of Palau. The Uighur men, former detainees at Guantánamo Bay, have been in a state of limbo since they were cleared of wrongdoing last fall.
Obama Bows on Settling Detainees
By Peter Finn and Sandhya Somashekhar
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, June 12, 2009
The Obama administration has all but abandoned plans to allow Guantanamo Bay detainees who have been cleared for release to live in the United States, administration officials said yesterday, a decision that reflects bipartisan congressional opposition to admitting such prisoners but complicates efforts to persuade European allies to accept them.
U.S. sends four Uighur detainees to Bermuda
Jun 11, 2009
By James Vicini
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Four Chinese detainees from Guantanamo Bay arrived in Bermuda on Thursday after being freed by U.S. authorities in the Obama administration's latest move to close the controversial prison camp for terror suspects.
Row erupts over Guantanamo deal
Video: Uighurs face new island home
Obama Bows on Settling Detainees
By Peter Finn and Sandhya Somashekhar
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, June 12, 2009
The Obama administration has all but abandoned plans to allow Guantanamo Bay detainees who have been cleared for release to live in the United States, administration officials said yesterday, a decision that reflects bipartisan congressional opposition to admitting such prisoners but complicates efforts to persuade European allies to accept them.
U.S. sends four Uighur detainees to Bermuda
Jun 11, 2009
By James Vicini
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Four Chinese detainees from Guantanamo Bay arrived in Bermuda on Thursday after being freed by U.S. authorities in the Obama administration's latest move to close the controversial prison camp for terror suspects.
Row erupts over Guantanamo deal
The UK expressed concern about the transfer of the Uighurs
A diplomatic spat has broken out over Bermuda's acceptance of four Chinese Muslim Uighurs released from the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay.
A diplomatic spat has broken out over Bermuda's acceptance of four Chinese Muslim Uighurs released from the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay.
Video: Uighurs face new island home
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