Seven years after being wrongfully imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, the 17 Uighers (that's pronounced 'whiggers') who no longer have a place to live have been offered residency on the small tropical island of Palau.
President Johnson Toribiong has released a statement saying it was "a small thing that we can do to thank our best friend and ally"the U.S., according to NPR. Oddly, this offer coincides with a 200 million dollar U.S. aide package to the small island.
Palau, for those not up to snuff on their Pacific archipelagos, is a few hundred miles north of Papua New Guinea, southwest of Yap, and a thousand miles east of Manila. While there, released Uighers will enjoy some of the best SCUBA diving in the world, a popular hobby among minority Islamic Chinese ethnicities who formally lived in the landlocked country of Afghanistan.
Palau's official tourism site: http://www.visit-palau.com/
There have been rallies outside the whitehouse for the last few months to free them or bring them somewhere nice. I wonder if we sit out in front of the White House we can demand extradition to an island.
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