Posted on 05/08/2008 3:10:16 PM PDT by rocksblues
This story seemed straight forward this morning when I started: How many detainees who are released or transferred from Gitmo have wound up on the battlefield again with the goal of killing Americans? But the more you report this story, the more you realize, the pentagon doesn’t have a good handle on how many detainees are involved and some lawyers argue that their clients, the detainees, got radicalized after spending years in Gitmo without charge.
Cully Stimson, a former senior policy adviser on detainees to the president, told me that these detainees are trained to lie. It is part of their terror training – that is why Stimson says - it can be so hard to make the case they are enemy combatants. Stimson put it this way:
“You find a guy, who says he’s a sheep herder in the mountains of Afghanistan, he has 25k cash on him and a GPS recorder and he’s found with 200 rpgs. Is he a sheep herder? No. And so this is a typical type of cover story.”
According to the Pentagon’s statistics, and I mention the source because it’s always important to know the source and their agenda, of the 500 detainees released from Guantanamo Bay, about 36 are confirmed or suspected of returning to the battlefield. That is roughly 7 percent.
(Excerpt) Read more at onthescene.blogs.foxnews.com ...
so, if we capture someone on the battlefield, hold them in a military center and release them, we are supposed to wonder how they end up back on a battlefield?
SOMEONE in this country has to become a spokesperson for this war. Bush has dropped the ball in the past 3-5 years. McCain could, except he is anti-Gitmo. Someone needs to stand up and explain the realities of the world.
Hopefully Bush will do this before the next President pardons them all.
Gee, we're supposed to believe these people were all captured in Rome while they were at an orphanage cooking meals for the poor. Who would have guessed they were actually on some battlefield somewhere?
No but it is turning liberals into rageboys.
They are not part of a regular, organized Army and by all rights and according to the Geneva Convention, as irregulars can and should be subject to miltary tribunal and summary execution.
We decide to hold them and get information out of them.
At the end of that they should be executed IMHO...but we end up letting some of them go and then wonder why we find them back on the battlefield? Or...we have absolute internal enemies trying to make an arguement and use absolutely perverted and insane logic thayt somehow we turned them into enemies?
God help us. God preserve our Republic and grant strength, perserverence, courage, and ultimate victory to our brave fighters who know the score and volunteer to face these animals who would love to see us all dead.
...and please God, grant them these virtues and capabilities in spte of the absolute raving fools and enemies here at home.
WTF is making the decisions about this any more? PC has no business in the defense of this country but we are apparently turning into a country of eunuchs. The libs have already proven beyond any shadow of a doubt they are COMPLETELY ill equipped to make ANY decisions regarding the security of this country. And I am starting to have serious doubts about Jorge and his administration.
These animals should be kept in a cage until they f’n DIE, which can not be soon enough for my liking.
***Is Gitmo Turning Sheep Herders into Jihadists?***
The DUers think so!
it´s a no win situation. if she/he was an extremist before he will contine after beeing released. if she/he was really inocent well i would say after 5 years guatanamo it´s possible that they will hate the Usa with passion.
Gitmo is not able to rehabilitate evil killers, that’s all.
Best thing to do is kill them(after a trial of course”. That way we know where they are.
After the story a few days ago about the former gitmo inmate becoming a suicide bomber in Iraq, I knew it would lead to this. Sick pathetic and disgusting. This argument says putting people in prison will make them criminals. If this is so, we should never let a single criminal out of prison ever for any offense. After all they will just become worse criminals. Stupid.
They will return to where we found them.
Best course is to execute them.
Islamic law respects such.
Yup that's who Moslems are!
How many detainees who are released or transferred from Gitmo have wound up on the battlefield AGAIN with the goal of killing Americans? But the more you report this story, the more you realize, the pentagon doesn’t have a good handle on how many detainees are involved and some lawyers argue that their clients, the detainees, got radicalized after spending years in Gitmo without charge.the operative word here being AGAIN!!!
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