WASHINGTON AP – President Barack Obama is reaching out around the world to find new homes for Guantanamo Bay detainees. But he is running into trouble in his own backyard.
Rep. Frank Wolf, a Republican lawmaker who represents some of the Virginia suburbs outside Washington, is fighting the possibility that Obama will resettle 17 Uighurs – Turkic Muslims from western China – in or near his district. That resistance comes despite Wolf’s history of supporting Uighurs pronounced WEE’-gurz. Defense Secretary Robert Gates recently acknowledged that some of the Uighurs are likely to be released in the United States, but the administration has not announced plans to move them.
