Pentagon: Ex-Detainees Return to Terror

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON Oct. 17, 2004 — Despite gaining their freedom by signing pledges to renounce violence, at least seven former prisoners of the United States at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have returned to terrorism, at times with deadly consequences.

At least two are believed to have died in fighting in Afghanistan, and a third was recaptured during a raid of a suspected training camp in Afghanistan, said Lt. Cmdr. Flex Plexico, a Pentagon spokesman. Others are at large.

Additional former detainees have expressed a desire to rejoin the fight, be it against U.N. peacekeepers in Afghanistan, Americans in Iraq or Russian soldiers in Chechnya.

Some 146 detainees have been released from Guantanamo, but only after U.S. officials had determined the prisoners no longer posed threats and had no remaining intelligence value.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=173074&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

[sundancekid]

1. shocked, simply shocked -- and with all the Geneva safeguards </sarcasm>

[MnFats]

2. can't imagine why they'd still be militant...

...after their kind treatment....

[unblock]

3. i wonder how many terrorists we're CREATING

honestly, if another country captured innocent little old me and treated me as we're treating those at guantanamo, i have NO IDEA what i might do upon my eventual release.

[hobbit709]

4. If They Weren't Terrorists

before being locked up and tortured, they certainly will be afterwards.

Reminds me of the old Moby Grape song, "Murder In My Heart For The Judge"

[NeoConsSuck]

8. Wasn't that a Lee Michaels tune? (nt)

[hobbit709]

11. Nope

moby Grape 1968

[DELUSIONAL]

10. These guys have a PhD in torture techniques

from the US Government -- they know what works -- because they probably have personally experienced all sorts of torture methods.

With such intensive training -- they are sure to come away hating the US.

Only the illogical fools among us could imagine any other outcome.

AND if this doesn't happen -- then the bush government can lie about what the former torture victims are doing today. And we would believe them anyway --

So the "detainees" are released and are eliminated (so as to avoid the kill record under US custody). Excuse for termination -- well we knew that they were going to return to their terroristic ways.

The bush predictive doctrine at work again.

[neomonkey]

5. SPIN ALERT!

I need to create a new smilie for

Spin Alert!!!

spin spin spin spin spin

[lumpy]

6. Hah! I have gotten to the point

that even if this is true I don't believe a word of it.

[neomonkey]

7. Hee Hee that's actually really funny

Cause when you think of it, on one extreme, you have sheople who will believe anything they hear.

On this side, you have people who discount everything. I'm in your boat, lumpy. Cynicism has taken root of my soul...it's sad.

[orpupilofnature57]

9. To tell you the truth * doesn't think about that, this much 0

Hopefully we'll cut loose the terrorists holding us, in a couple weeks.