Posted on 01/27/2009 11:31:46 AM PST by ezfindit
Two men released from the US war on terror prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba have appeared in a video posted on a jihadist website, the SITE monitoring service reported.
One of the two former inmates, a Saudi man identified as Abu Sufyan al-Azdi al-Shahri, or prisoner number 372, has been elevated to the senior ranks of Al-Qaeda in Yemen, a US counter-terrorism official told AFP. [...]
The Defense Department has said as many as 61 former Guantanamo detainees about 11 percent of 520 detainees transferred from the detention center and released are believed to have returned to the fight.
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There is a very good reason why civil law, criminal law and the laws of war are separate.
War is not crime. Treating it like crime is a guaranteed one-way street to crushing defeat.
If you want the perfect way to lose a war, just put lawyers in charge of it.
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