GOP Senators Urge Trump to Send ISIS POWs to Re-opened Guantanamo

GOP Senators Urge Trump to Send ISIS POWs to Re-opened Guantanamo
People walk past a guard tower outside the fencing of Camp 5 at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Jan. 26, 2017. THOMAS WATKINS/AFP/Getty Images
Mark Tapscott
Mark Tapscott
Senior Congressional Correspondent
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WASHINGTON—Four of the Senate’s most conservative Republicans are encouraging President Donald Trump to send hundreds of captured ISIS fighters now in Syria to the U.S. prison facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

“Our partners, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), are currently detaining over 700 of these battle-hardened terrorists in Northeast Syria,” the four senators said in the letter sent to the president on Jan. 22 and made public Jan. 23.
Mark Tapscott
Mark Tapscott
Senior Congressional Correspondent
Mark Tapscott is an award-winning senior Congressional correspondent for The Epoch Times. He covers Congress, national politics, and policy. Mr. Tapscott previously worked for Washington Times, Washington Examiner, Montgomery Journal, and Daily Caller News Foundation.
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