Obamessiah Asks Germany to Take In Gitmo Prisoners, Germany Not So Excited About That

Great idea, Mr. President. Germany certainly does not have enough trouble with its Turkish Muslims-I'm sure they will be delighted about this request. Or maybe not.

"The German interior ministry said Sunday it had received a request to take in Guantanamo prisoners, but did not give their identities or their number. German News weekly Der Spiegel reported Monday that Washington handed Berlin a list of "nearly 10" prisoners, though Germany's interior ministry declined to confirm the figure.The southern German city of Munich has the largest community of Uighur exiles in the world, with about 500 of the Turkic-origin Muslim peoples living there. Most of the 17 Uighurs held at the controversial jail were cleared more than four years ago of being "enemy combatants." They were living in a self-contained camp in Afghanistan when the US-led bombing campaign began in October 2001 as part of the military campaign in response to the September 11 attacks."

"Officials in Germany have said a decision about whether or not to take the detainees rests largely with the individual German federal states, which so far have shown little enthusiasm for doing so, out of fear of potential acts of terror. "We have no interest exposing ourselves to additional risk," said Holger Hoevelmann, interior minister of Saxony-Anhalt, one of Germany's 16 states, speaking to the Frankfurter Rundschau daily newspaper.