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Pentagon: More Guantanamo detainees have gone back to terrorism
Jan 13, 2009, 20:25 GMT
Washington - Sixty-one detainees once held at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, prison are believed to have returned to terrorism after being released, the US Defence Department said Tuesday.
Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said intelligence officials have confirmed that 18 have returned to terrorism while 43 are 'suspected of returning to the fight.'
The numbers represent an increase from 7 per cent to 11 per cent of released detainees suspected or known to have returned to terrroism, Morrell said.
'There clearly are people who are being held at Guantanamo who are still bent on doing harm to America - Americans and our allies,' Morrell said. 'So there will have to be some solution for the likes of them.'
President-elect Barack Obama has pledged to close Guantanamo prison after taking office on Tuesday, and will reportedly issue an executive order to shutter the facility on his first full day in office on Wednesday.
But Obama acknowledged in an interview with ABC News over the weekend that the complex and legal and security issues mean it will take at least months to close the facility.
'I think it's going to take some time and our legal teams are working in consultation with our national security apparatus as we speak to help design exactly what we need to do,' he said.
Defence Secretary Robert Gates has already begun the process of reviewing how to close Guantanamo and deal with the remaining 250 detainees, only a handful of which have been charged with crimes.
The Pentagon has already identified an additional 60 inmates who can be transferred or released to another country, but no government has stepped forward to take them, indicating the difficulty of shutting down the prison camp.
It was unclear whether Obama would order a suspension of the trials under President George W Bush's military commissions.
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SP4, I believe you're right on this one. It is like releasing criminals from prison who repeatedly commit the same acts of law-breaking when they are set free. Some 'terrorists' may be innocent, others, are just plain terrorists. Let the rest of the world figure this one out for themselves.
Some criminals will actually go straight, and become productive citizens; that could be the case with some of the Guantanamo Bay prisoners. Then again, freeing killers to kill again is insane.
there are criminals in every prison who don't have any intention of changing the things they are hell bent on doing once they're released, which is a proven.
Yeah - right up your arseholes, especially the idiot senile Judges who thought the Guantanamo vermin were shining angels when they gave their lunatic verdict, persuading the military to set them free to kill Americans again. Eat ya arses out, you old scumbags. Have a quick heart attack.
These decrepit traitorous legal cretins should be shot, not allowed to pass judgement on American security measures aimed at protecting our people and service personnel. THAT is a CIA, FBI and Military matter and does NOT come under the jurisdiction of some old civilian faggots sitting on their big fat arses in a remote cosy and safe Court House, 1,000`s of miles away.
These Guantanamo scum should never have been there in the first place.
Every single one of them should have been shot within 24 hours of being sentenced by a MILITARY Court Marshall on site of capture.
DUH...!!! What could we expect the ex-Gitmo detainees to do? Maybe go volunteer to recruit for the VFW???
It's great entertainment to hear the rant of the redneck crowd, isn't it? All they know about U.S. foreign policy was obviously learned from watching American war movies == 'Hey! We don't need any friends... just shoot 'em, nuke 'em or whatever.'
Well, that's wonderful. Makes a great war hero movie plot... but what you gonna do when you start trying to bully China? You can't nuke 'em, you can't shoot 'em and you damn sure can't intimidate 'em.
Hmmm... you best start learning a little diplomacy... or else get your kids started learning Chinese... cause they gonna need it.
It only has limited power GIVEN TO THEM by Japanese, Taiwanese, European, and US investments that total several, hundred BILLION dollars!
China has NO domestic industry, but only what we close down here in our own nations after we lay off our own people.
If all the nations stopped investing in that communist dump they would financially collapse and starve within 7-9 months or so and burn through all their gold and foreign currency resreves.
If we stopped sending all our jobs to China, that nation would fall and go into civil war.
It can not support itself. How could it feed itself? It is a massive food importer, which is another major weakness of China.
It has no rival Motorola, Barclays, GE, Boeing, General Motors, Citigroup, Westinghouse, BP, Ford, or British Aerospace.
That whole nation is surviving on the outsourcing of our own jobs.
You are a dink.
You have no idea of the reality China would face if we all stopped shipping OUR money to their borders.
You need to do some basic reading and see reality of the paper tiger waiting to collapse.
Hungarian Crusader
The hungry crusader did it again....lost all connection with reality .Look around you hungry crusader and count the number of items manfacted in China and tell us...are you going to throw it all away ...and change the coure of the world...yawn,just the delusions of a neocn fruitcake,let's move on to more serious contenders.
China is the third most important agricultual supplier of the USA after Canada and Mexico,5,8 percent of all agricultural imports originate from CHina.I guess you didn't know that hungry crusader .But then again your contributions here have never gone beyond fiction.
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SP4: geeJan 13th, 2009 - 21:11:13
...ya think?
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