NOT IN MY BACK CONTINENT:

Europe’s Hedging on Inmates Clouds Guantánamo Plans (WILLIAM GLABERSON and STEVEN ERLANGER, 3/16/09, NY Times)

European countries that have offered to help the Obama administration close the detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, have begun raising questions about the security risks and requirements if they accept prisoners described by the Bush administration as “the worst of the worst,” according to diplomats and other officials.

The concerns, and a deep suspicion of whether the American intelligence community will share full information on the prisoners, are likely to complicate the resettlement effort, which is critical to President Obama’s fulfilling his pledge to close Guantánamo within a year of his taking office.

Fortunately, no one sensible expected them to do anything different.

Posted by Orrin Judd at March 16, 2009 7:02 AM