Posted on 07/25/2007 9:05:42 PM PDT by gpapa
The U.S. scored a battlefield coup on July 4 when it captured a leader of al Qaeda in Iraq in the northern city of Mosul, and President Bush hailed that capture this week while declassifying other new details about that organization. The issue now is whether the Bush Administration is going to squander part of that victory because of its internal squabbles over the future of Guantanamo Bay.
No one doubts that Khalid Abdul Fattah Dawoud Mahmoud al-Mashadani is a dangerous enemy of America. Also known as Abu Shahid, he "is believed to be the most senior Iraqi in the al Qaeda in Iraq network," according to a July 18 briefing by U.S. Brigadier General Kevin Bergner. Mashadani is a close associate of Abu Ayub al-Masri, the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq. And he is believed to have been a main communications link between al-Masri and the global al Qaeda leadership of Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri.
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Gitmo is an elegant solution to the twin problems of avoiding future “Abu Ghraibs”, while keeping unlawful terrorist combatants out of the hands of the US “Justice” System.
“Gitmo is an elegant solution to the twin problems of avoiding future “Abu Ghraibs”, while keeping unlawful terrorist combatants out of the hands of the US “Justice” System.”
I say reopen Alcatraz and put them there. I am sure Pelosi, Feinstein and Boxer wouldn’t have a problem with that.
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