WELLINGTON, New Zealand AP – Palau agreed to accept 17 Chinese Muslims who have languished in legal limbo at Guantanamo Bay, indicating a resolution to one of the thorniest issues facing the Obama administration’s decision to close the prison camp.
The announcement Wednesday by the Pacific archipelago, which would clear the last of the Uighurs from the camp in Cuba, was a major step toward the U.S. goal of finding new homes for detainees who have been cleared of wrongdoing but cannot go home for fear of ill-treatment.
