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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: dutch508 on January 13, 2009, 02:59:15 PM
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Not long for this world GSPower, talks about gitmo release-ese...
GSPowner (89 posts) Tue Jan-13-09 03:12 PM
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Pentagon: 61 ex-Guantanamo inmates return to terrorism
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=116x17048
Reuters:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon said on Tuesday that 61 former detainees from its military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, appear to have returned to terrorism since their release from custody.
Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said 18 former detainees are confirmed and 43 suspected of "returning to the fight."
He said the figures, updated at the end of December, showed a higher rate of recidivism than seen in a previous report showing 37 former detainees as active militants.
He provided no details about the detainees or their countries of origin.
"The overall known terrorist re-engagement rate has increased to 11 percent" from about 7 percent, Morrell said.
The numbers were generated by the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency based on fingerprints, photographs and intelligence reports, he said.
President-elect Barack Obama, who takes office on Tuesday, is expected to issue an executive order to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, possibly within his first week in office.
About 255 men are still held at the U.S.-run naval base in Cuba, a symbol of aggressive interrogation methods that exposed the United States to allegations of torture.
Washington has cleared 50 of the detainees for release but cannot return them to their home countries because of the risk they would be tortured or persecuted there.
Around 500 others have been freed or transferred to other governments since 2002.
Pentagon officials say scores of detainees still in custody should never be released because of the potential danger they pose to U.S. interests.
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE50C5JX200...
Maybe they should have been detained?
ALERT ALERT ALERT ALERT!!!
babylonsister (1000+ posts) Tue Jan-13-09 03:13 PM
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1. Maybe their illegal detainment helped convince them to pick sides. nt
Edited on Tue Jan-13-09 03:16 PM by babylonsister
maybe they already chose a side. That's why we captured them.
YOY (1000+ posts) Tue Jan-13-09 03:14 PM
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3. Well if you had put them in jail using evidence and a proper trial they wouldn't be.
n.t.
Can you imagine putting every German soldier we captured on trial during WWII?
libodem (1000+ posts) Tue Jan-13-09 03:19 PM
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6. Wasn't that the whole point?
I figured that's what Bush had in mind. Create a permanent pissed off fighting mad group of Muslims to create some CIA business. Business will be booming in the Revenge sector. I don't doubt they were brainwashed with selected programing to hate the USA and give the Spy trade a shot in the arm.
All part of the Bush master plan to create torrorists, so we'd have someone to fight.
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But Bush is a moron, the DUmmies have said it themselves a million times....somehow he is smart enough to dream up this elaborate scheme? Creating terrorists so we have someone to hate/fight. :mental:
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Can you imagine putting every German soldier we captured on trial during WWII?
Which would raise exactly the same problem as the DUmmie plan for the Gitmoids: On trial for WHAT, exactly? Doing what their own government ordered them to do as members of its armed forces, completely outside US territorial jurisdiction? The charging instrument should make for some very unique legal reading on that one.
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I heard this little blip on the news about 10 minutes after an NPR idiot said something about the "so-called" enemy combatants that were picked up on the battlefield in Afghanistan. I mean, I know NPR is full of liberal idiots, but how :censored: dumb can they get?? ::) ::) :mental:
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babylonsister
Maybe their illegal detainment helped convince them to pick sides.
There are certain primitives who deserve to be physically confronted and have their teeth punched down their throat. This is one of them.
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damn linky wont work :(
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There are certain primitives who deserve to be physically confronted and have their teeth punched down their throat. This is one of them.
Oh, but I'm sure if the effects of terrorism reach Baltimore, she'll be down on her knees, her fat ass up in the air, begging and pleading and bawling and crying and supplicating for protection.
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babylonsister (1000+ posts) Tue Jan-13-09 03:13 PM
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1. Maybe their illegal detainment helped convince them to pick sides. nt
Their illegal attacks on 9/11, Khobar Towers, the USS Cole, the African embassies, etc., certainly helped me pick sides. :loser: :bird:
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damn linky wont work :(
damn linky don't work 'cause they trashed it. It may have been moved to the dungeon of national defense, still looking.
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damn linky don't work 'cause they trashed it. It may have been moved to the dungeon of national defense, still looking.
It does now. You didn't have a space between the URL and Reuters.
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It does now. You didn't have a space between the URL and Reuters.
cut and paste is a bitch
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cut and paste is a bitch
It happens.
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It's time to send the coded message to GITMO...."Commence cement delivery".