Memo To France: Shut The F--k Up

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Reuter's Article on French Terrorists

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France Wants U.S. Information on Guantanamo Prisoners

PARIS (Reuters) - France said on Friday it had demanded clear information from the United States on why six French nationals are being held in the Guantanamo Bay U.S. military base and planned to send another delegation there.

The six were arrested in early 2002 and are currently held by the United States military as "enemy combatants," and not prisoners of war who are granted a wide range of protections under international law.

About 660 suspected Taliban and al Qaeda members are being held at Guantanamo since being captured during the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, which followed the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.

"We are asking that the U.S. authorities provide us with precise information regarding why they arrested these prisoners and what they are charged with," Foreign Ministry spokesman Herve Ladsous told a regular press briefing. "We are going to suggest to the United States the possibility of a new mission to Guantanamo," he said, adding that nothing had yet been decided in terms of a date.

French relations with the United States are at a low ebb following Paris' opposition to the U.S.-led war in Iraq and its demand that Iraqis and the United Nations have a bigger say in running the post-war country.

France has kept a relatively low public profile on the fate of its six nationals held at Guantanamo, Cuba, although French officials flew to the base twice in early 2002, soon after the arrests, and have kept up contact ever since.

Lawyers for four of the French prisoners last month asked the United Nations to investigate evidence they were being subjected to psychological torture, citing accounts that they suffer periods of solitary confinement and lack of exercise.

A United Nations human rights body has already described the detention of French and Spaniards in Guantanamo as illegal.

One of the lawyers for the Frenchmen has said that there is no evidence of them having been involved in terrorism.

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Memo To France: Shut The F--k Up

Reuter's Article on French Terrorists

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France Wants U.S. Information on Guantanamo Prisoners

PARIS (Reuters) - France said on Friday it had demanded clear information from the United States on why six French nationals are being held in the Guantanamo Bay U.S. military base and planned to send another delegation there.

The six were arrested in early 2002 and are currently held by the United States military as "enemy combatants," and not prisoners of war who are granted a wide range of protections under international law.

About 660 suspected Taliban and al Qaeda members are being held at Guantanamo since being captured during the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, which followed the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.

"We are asking that the U.S. authorities provide us with precise information regarding why they arrested these prisoners and what they are charged with," Foreign Ministry spokesman Herve Ladsous told a regular press briefing. "We are going to suggest to the United States the possibility of a new mission to Guantanamo," he said, adding that nothing had yet been decided in terms of a date.

French relations with the United States are at a low ebb following Paris' opposition to the U.S.-led war in Iraq and its demand that Iraqis and the United Nations have a bigger say in running the post-war country.

France has kept a relatively low public profile on the fate of its six nationals held at Guantanamo, Cuba, although French officials flew to the base twice in early 2002, soon after the arrests, and have kept up contact ever since.

Lawyers for four of the French prisoners last month asked the United Nations to investigate evidence they were being subjected to psychological torture, citing accounts that they suffer periods of solitary confinement and lack of exercise.

A United Nations human rights body has already described the detention of French and Spaniards in Guantanamo as illegal.

One of the lawyers for the Frenchmen has said that there is no evidence of them having been involved in terrorism.

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This is so much b.s. What's next? Granting asylum to Saddam?

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