blake murphy > wrote in
:
> I have only been able to find references to three named individuals
> who have been identified as GTMO detainees "known" to have returned to
> Afghanistan from Guantánamo and who "might" have returned to the
> battlefield. Two of those names came from government officials (on
> several different occasions) and the third seems to have come from an
> individual claiming to have been at Guantánamo. The three names a
> Haji Shahzada; Abdullah Mehsud; and Maulvi Abdul Ghaffar.
What about .....
"A U.S. counterterror official confirmed Friday that Said Ali al-Shihri,
who was jailed in Guantanamo for six years after his capture in
Pakistan, has resurfaced as a leader of a Yemeni branch of al-Qaida."
and.........
"That announcement, which carried the video post of al-Shihri, also
included a second video of a second militant who identified himself as
Abu al-Hareth Muhammad al-Oufi and claimed he had also been a Guantanamo
captive, later released."
http://www.startribune.com/nation/38212874.html
You haven't checked real hard, have you?
Are you a GITMO detainee sympathiser?
>
> About 520 Guantanamo detainees have been ***released from custody or
> transferred to prisons*** elsewhere in the world.
ie, that 520 either released, or still in prison, just elsewhere.
>
> <http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,705277399,00.html>
"A Pentagon tally of the detainees ***released*** show that 122 were
transferred from Guantanamo in 2007, more than any other year so far."
So now we have a figure of 122 being released back into the wild.
Which means that 398 were "released" into prisons elsewhere.
So with 61 suspected of returning to the fight, that makes it 2 out of
4, or *half* of detainees released that are going back to terrorist
activities.
>
> ...so even if you take the pentagon figures as gospel, no way is it
> 'four out of five.'
>
BFD.
Even if one goes back, it's one too many.
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Peter Lucas
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