New Role for Caribbean Banking Center - Home of Gitmo Detainees

So, Caribbean Banking Centers, which include Bahamas, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Netherlands Antilles and Panama according to the U.S. Treasury Department, may not be just for buying up U.S. Treasuries when no one wants them. One of them, Bermuda, is playing a prominent role outside financial matters.

America's 'Bermuda Solution' angers Britain (6/13/09, Independent):

"Senior aides to President Barack Obama accompanied four Uighur prisoners as they were flown from Guantanamo Bay to the British colony of Bermuda, without the UK being informed, it was revealed yesterday.

"In an escalating diplomatic row over the transfer of the former terrorist suspects, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton discussed the transfer with British Foreign Secretary David Miliband in what was said to be an uneasy conversation. Privately Whitehall officials accused America of treating Britain, with whom it is supposed to have a "special relationship", with barely disguised contempt.

"The prime minister of Bermuda, Ewart Brown, disclosed that talks regarding the Uighurs had been going on for a full month, with London kept in the dark..."

"The Bermudan premier denied that there had been any financial sweetener from Washington, and said that Bermuda was simply "playing the Good Samaritan" in recognition of its 400-hundred-year-old friendship with the United States."

(Why did he even bother to say that?)

Bermuda is a British colony, and Brits were kept in the dark, and they are furious.

Understandably so. But they should have guessed how the U.K. would be treated under the new administration when Mr. Gordon Brown got a set of DVDs (incompatible in UK) of Hollywood movies as a gift from the U.S., and when their Queen got an iPod with the US president's speeches as the state gift.

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