Posted on 03/13/2016 7:10:02 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
While President Obama continues releasing terrorists from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo a new intelligence report discloses that dozens have reengaged in terrorism after leaving the compound at the Naval base in southeast Cuba.
Of the 144 Gitmo prisoners freed by the Obama administration seven are confirmed to have returned to the fight, according to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). Of the 532 captives released under the George W. Bush administration, 111 eventually reengaged in extremist causes, the ODNI reveals.
Gitmo detainees returning to terrorism is nothing new and in fact has been widely reported by Judicial Watch for years. As far back as 2010 JW wrote about an ODNI report to Congress documenting that 150 former Gitmo prisoners were confirmed or suspected of “reengaging in terrorist or insurgent activities after transfer.”
At the time the agency revealed that at least 83 “remain at large” and that if additional detainees get released some will “reengage in terrorist or insurgent activities.”
That assessment came two years after the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency disclosed a sharp rise in the number of Gitmo detainees who rejoin terrorist missions after leaving U.S. custody. Using data such as fingerprints, pictures and other reports the defense agency, which gathers foreign military intelligence, determined that the number of Middle Eastern terrorists who returned to “the fight” after being released nearly doubled in a short time.
In 2014, years after liberating an Al Qaeda operative from Gitmo, the U.S. government put him on a global terrorist list and offered a $5 million reward for information on his whereabouts. It would almost be funny if it wasn’t so pathetic. JW published that embarrassing story as the Obama administration began freeing more and more Gitmo inmates to meet the president’s longtime goal of closing the compound.
Still left at the top security facility are the world’s most dangerous terrorists, including 9/11 masterminds Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), Ramzi Binalshibh, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi as well as USS Cole bomber Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri. The administration is set on bringing them to prisons in the U.S., which has caused fury among officials and legislators in states where the facilities being considered are located.
While those arrangements get settled, the administration has embarked on a frenzy releasing Gitmo prisoners to foreign countries—many in the Middle East—in a last-ditch effort to empty out the compound. Many will go back to their terrorist ways, according to the ODNI. “Based on trends identified during the past eleven years, we assess that some detainees currently at GTMO will seek to reengage in terrorist or insurgent activities after they are transferred,” the latest agency assessment states.
“Transfers to countries with ongoing conflicts and internal instability, as well as recruitment by insurgent and terrorist organizations, could pose problems. While enforcement of transfer conditions may deter reengagement by many former detainees and delay reengagement by others, some detainees who are determined to reengage will do so regardless of any transfer conditions, albeit probably at a lower rate than if they were transferred without conditions.”
The intelligence dispatch also certifies that former Gitmo detainees routinely communicate with each other, families of other former detainees and previous associates who are members of terrorist organizations. “The reasons for communication span the mundane (reminiscing about shared experiences) to the nefarious (planning terrorist operations),” the ODNI report says. “We assess that some GTMO detainees transferred in the future will also communicate with other former GTMO detainees and persons in terrorist organizations. We do not consider mere communication with individuals or organizations— including other former GTMO detainees—an indicator of reengagement. Rather, the motives, intentions, and purposes of each communication are taken into account when assessing whether the individual has reengaged.”
Thank you Mr. Obola.
Can I have some more?
I’m not going to say what I would have ordered done with them.
Run ‘em through the chum grinder and go fishing?
Don’t the coastal water near Cuba get crowded with Hammerhead Shark every so often? Sharks have to eat too, ya know.
Corrected.
Well, what did you idiots in Washington and you “perfumed princes” in the Pentagon think they would do??? Go home, settle down and grow soybeans?????
No, their fondest hope and dreams from their religion is to die gloriously in Jihad and go straight to paradise and get their 72 virgins...
You just gave them ANOTHER opportunity to do just that and take as many infidels (Americans) with them in death...
bmp
List of detainees, click on name for the JTF-GTMO Assessment & recommendation for that individual.
http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo/detainees
Then the sharks could feast on them.
It wouldn't be lawful for me to do it. I'm not sure I'd want to circumvent the applicable laws though.
I shouldn't be thinking bad thoughts like that, but it's frustrating that more Americans and others will probably be killed by them or by those they recruit.
Thanks for the post and the ping.
Hey, you know what? There is a time for purple prose, and there’s also a time to plot the ‘efficient neutralization of your enemy’.
I think it’s a good mental exercise of survival.
If the idea is burning a hole in your imagination, I say write a short story about it. Allow yourself to develop the idea to a workable theory, include it in your storyline.
Maybe this is how people like Ann Rice and Steven King got started.
Yep. Turn ‘em into shark sh*t.
“Run ‘em through the chum grinder and go fishing?”
Foul the fish? Cleaning them would be a stench, let alone what it would do to the meat.
Tthe administration has embarked on a frenzy releasing Gitmo prisoners to foreign countries—many in the Middle East—in a last-ditch effort to empty out the compound.
Tthe administration has embarked on a frenzy releasing Gitmo prisoners to foreign countries—many in the Middle East—in a last-ditch effort to empty out the compound.
As to writing, some people tell me that I am a good writer, nobody on here. If it is a subject with which I am intimately acquainted, maybe not too bad.
But to write well about anything, you have to have amazing visualization and descriptive powers. Steven King, people like him and Whitley Strieber I think have tapped into dark guides.
But I guess I won't let that dissuade me. It would be some kind of parody. Build a lot of suspense of these horrid characters, then they would turn out to be people like we know.
I would have to be able to describe Guantanamo, the exterioe, then the inside, the cells, the guards, how they are dressed, their ranks, I would have to have a good background against which to base my story. And then the sea. Like whosit? Dana, somebody like that. Name me one woman who has written a sea tale.
Now if I did it in the style of one of my favorite writers, Edward Rowe Snow, just maybe I could pull it off. I was glad when they id'ed the body of the little girl on the Island in Boston Harbor. Snow would have been horrified. He wrote about ghoulish stuff though.
Did you know we held and tortured prisoners for the Spanish Inquisition? It was at a fort at St. Augustine. Snow claimed we did and wrote an interesting tale about it.
Maybe the muse will strike. But I just revealed I do have a dark side. If I get outraged enough, I just might do something like that. Self publish.
I did think of weaving some things about my life into my will though. They would have to file it in the court house, wouldn't they? I mean it would be lots of pages. Old scores to settle. Lots of them. To give it context, I could work in the perilous and perfidious people who have and are destroying our country.
No need for Intel...
Nana’s little pea brain coulda told ya that one...
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