More WTF?

The Independent:

The Pentagon released the names yesterday of all 759 people who have been held at Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba since it opened in 2002 - including 201 people whose identity has never been revealed.

The detainees come from more than 40 countries, and range in age from their teens to over 70. Of the total, 220 are from Afghanistan, 134 from Saudi Arabia, 94 from Yemen and 57 from Pakistan. There are also 20 Algerians, 17 Chinese and seven Russians…

The US military says the camp contains some 480 detainees, after the release or transfer of 275. But the data gives little clue of who is still in the prison…

The Pentagon claims it must continue to hold some prisoners who are of no intelligence value, either because their countries of origin will not accept them, or their safety cannot be assured.

Am I nuts, or is “their safety cannot be assured” kind of a lame-ass reason for holding someone in a detention center which has had problems with ensuring their safety from their alleged protectors? These people are on hunger strikes. Something tells me that they’d prefer to be let go, whether their safety can be assured or not.