They Love Us Now, They Really Love Us!

Obama's surrender to Europe has already begun paying dividends.

Austria rejects US Guantanamo detainee request
Austria said Monday it would not take detainees from the Guantanamo Bay center despite a request by President Barack Obama for help from European nations during his first major international trip as leader.

Austria was worried about the security threat to the European Union posed by the detainees, Interior Minister Maria Fekter told a meeting of her European counterparts.

Obama repeated his request Sunday for European countries to take some of the 60 inmates who will have to go to another country as they could face abuse, imprisonment or death if returned to their homelands. He has ordered the center to close within a year of his taking office.

Several EU countries, including the Czech Republic, which currently holds the EU presidency, have already declined to take inmates.

"If the detainees are no longer dangerous, why don't they stay in the U.S.," Fekter told the meeting. "For Austria, I cannot accept Guantanamo inmates."

Taking inmates poses a security headache for the EU because 23 of its members share a common passport-free zone. If one of its members takes in a prisoner with a criminal record, all others in the zone will have to be alerted.

Jacques Barrot, the EU's justice and interior affairs commissioner told reporters that U.S. officials told him they intend to take in a share of the 60 prisoners.

"We European countries are now dealing with an American government which is showing good will and this good will is expressed now in the fact that they are willing to resettle some ex-detainees on their own territory," Barrot said.

Barrot said U.S. justice officials aimed to finalize new countries for the detainees by the end of June. He said the EU was receiving "detailed answers" about why the inmates are being detained and the potential security risk they could pose.

Any final decision on taking in detainees remains one for each of the EU nations.

France said Friday that it would be willing to take one of the suspected terrorists held at Guantanamo, while Spain and Portugal have said they too could accept detainees.

About 250 detainees are still held, some without charge, at the Guantanamo Bay center, which was set up after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

You should've talked to 'em in Austrian, nitwit.

Via Yahoo News

Europeans Offer to Take Club Gitmo Animals Off Our Hands

As a means of sucking up to The Messiah, some idiotic Europeans are supposedly offering to take some of the subhumanoids at Club Gitmo off our hands.

They can have them. Maybe during the inaugural, we can have an announcement piped in to the adoring masses that the victims of imperialist American aggression have cleared our airspace en route to freedom, a sort of bizarro world reprise of the 1981 Reagan inaugural when it was announced the Americans hostages were freed by the Iranians.

Half dozen European countries are considering resettling detainees from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as a gesture to the incoming Obama administration, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday.

Citing senior European officials and U.S. diplomats, the newspaper said European officials have put out tentative feelers to President-elect Barack Obama's team. But Obama advisers said they could only discuss the issue after the January 20 inauguration.

Guantanamo has about 250 detainees including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, accused of masterminding the September 11 attacks. The prison has come to symbolize aggressive interrogation practices that opened the United States up to allegations of torture.

Obama has pledged to close Guantanamo.

Only Germany and Portugal have acknowledged publicly that they are considering resettling the detainees, the newspaper said.

I'm sure the sane people of Germany and Portugal will be thrilled to hear the news.