Here’s a peculiar story from Bloomberg:
Some of the 17 Chinese Uighur Muslims being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will likely be released in the U.S. in an effort to convince other countries to accept prisoners from the detention facility, according to current and former American officials.
Why peculiar? Because there’s not even a smidgen of backup for this claim in the rest of the story, which runs to over a thousand words. There’s one speculative quote from a Bush-era legal advisor and that’s it. Nothing from current American officials at all. All in all, the story gives no reason to believe that the Obama administration is any closer to releasing any of the Uighurs into the U.S. than it was a month ago.
Still, I’d like it to be true. So here’s hoping there’s more to this piece than meets the eye.
