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...That one could cut both ways, says Vijay Padmanabhan, a visiting professor at the Cardozo School of Law and former counsel to the State Department on detainee issues. On one hand, it suggests that releasing dangerous people from Gitmo "poses some threat they could return to terrorist activity." On the other hand, the French court demonstrated that "other countries are unable to use evidence procured in Guantánamo, which may hamper, not help, our ability to detain people in the long run." Padmanabhan believes that "ultimately, the big picture here is Guantánamo is an unsustainable model...
...comes the hard part. The Obama Administration must go through a veritable obstacle course of legal and logistical difficulties before it can remove the last detainee and consign the much reviled prison to history. "After the signature, that's when you face the practical difficulties," says Vijay Padmanabhan, a visiting professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and former counsel on detainee issues to the State Department. How long could it take? Experts consulted by TIME say there's a good chance there will still be some detainees at the prison deep into 2009, and possibly into...
...Obama Administration will want to send some detainees to third countries. But many nations - especially those in Europe - have been reluctant to take them in the past. The President's team is counting on the goodwill generated by Obama's election to break down some European resistance. But, says Padmanabhan, "if you're Germany, the real reason you don't want to take Gitmo detainees is not that you hate Bush but that your own parliament and people don't want these guys running around on your soil...
...country has agreed or even suggested that they are thinking about accepting these people for resettlement," says Padmanabhan, who recently left the State Department to become a visiting assistant professor at the Cardozo School in New York City. "China is a big country on the block, so people don't like to do things that anger the Chinese government." (See here for pictures from inside Guantánamo...
...State Department continues to press other countries to take in the Uighurs, as Albania did with five other Uighur detainees in 2006. But Albania has apparently decided that taking in more Uighurs now is too burdensome. And Padmanabhan doubts whether any other countries will come around and solve the problem before the new White House takes shape in roughly two months. "There are no signs of hope," he says...