So what does everyone think about the Obama administration wanting to move a terrorist into a house near you?

Moving quickly to release Chinese Uighur terrorists into the United States, Obama administration officials have — for the second time — overridden objections of federal agencies responsible for national security.

The first time — as I reported on April 20 — the White House overrode the inter-agency panel it created from all the national security agencies to review all the cases of the Guantanamo Bay prisoners.  That panel found that the seventeen Uighurs — members of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement captured at an al-Queda training camp in Pakistan — were too dangerous to release in the United States.

Now — according to a federal agency source who requested anonymity — the White House has also overridden opposition to the release from both the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security.

Beginning yesterday and continuing today, Obama administration officials are briefing key members of Congress on the release, which may happen as early as next week.  There apparently has been no decision on where the Uighurs will be turned loose.  Earlier reports suggested they could be released in Alexandria, Virginia or Washington, D.C.  [Human Events]

What caught my attention about this issue is that I just read this in the book I am currently reading:

Within the Uighur community are extremist groups who are radical Islamist fundamentalists dedicated to using terrorism to achieve their goals of independence.  (………..)

Just to be clear, these men are not choirboys who strayed on the path home from church services.  They were captured in Al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan, in which they were by their own admission undergoing training so that they could return to China to be terrorists supporting an independent Uighur Islamic nation.  In several cases they were captured by the Northern Alliance or its supporters and eventually screened by US forces.  Some reports on anti-war websites claim that the Uighurs were “sold” to Americans for $5,000 apiece, but this is an unconfirmed rumor.

The books goes on to describe their holding area that included communal living, great food, satellite TV, and an unmatched ocean view.  The US has been trying to find someone will to take these guys and this might explain why nobody wants them:

But the TV privileges underscored potential difficulties to come, according to one current and one former U.S. official. Not long after being granted access to TV, some of the Uighurs were watching a soccer game. When a woman with bare arms was shown on the screen, one of the group grabbed the television and threw it to the ground, according to the officials.  [LA Times]

So you all in Virginia have fun with your non-dangerous Uighur neighbors who smash TV’s at the first sighting of women with bare arms.

While our US government is busy finding homes in the US for terrorists, few North Korean defectors have been accepted by the United States with only one even receiving residency so far.  Anyway it will be interesting to see what the Chinese reaction will be to the US sheltering terrorists committed to fighting the Chinese if the Obama administration decides to release these guys in Virginia.