Left falsely Claims Scalia Lied in Stating That Terrorists Released from Gitmo Went Back to Terrorizing
Actually, they phrase it in a carefully-limited way: No released terrorists, they say, have been proven to have attacked Americans, claiming that this refutes Scalia's claim, though Scalia actually said they had "returned to the battlefield," and did not specify the exact nationality of innocent civilians murdered by released terrorists. That allows them to ignore or pretend to not have noticed this Washington Post report of a former Gitmo detainee who just recently murdered innocent Iraqis in a Mosul suicide bombing.
If he didn't kill an American, that was purely happenstance; obviously he was not blowing random people up with the express intent of not killing Americans.
Even taking their deceptively limiting claim about "attacks on Americans" at face value (and I don't see why we should), there is that little problem of released detainees re-joining the Taliban to take part in "anti-coalition militant activity." In case the left hadn't noticed, America is part of the coalition in Afghanistan.
The worst part is that this dishonest report comes from Seton Hall law professors. I expect all sorts of dishonesty in politics, but professors, and especially law professors, are supposed to be concerned about perjured testimony.
Thanks to CJ.
posted by Ace
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Here's the Wa Post article on the Gitmo releasee who became a suicide bomber. Note that the former Gitmo detainee left a video behind calling on people to kill Americans. Shame on those who lie about Scalia's remark. They show the left has no integrity.
washingtonpost.com
Ex-Guantanamo Detainee Joined Iraq Suicide Attack
By Josh White
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, May 8, 2008; Page A18
A Kuwaiti man who complained about maltreatment during a three-year stay in the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was involved in a deadly suicide bombing in northern Iraq last month, the U.S. military confirmed yesterday.
Abdallah Salih al-Ajmi, 29, whom the U.S. military accused of fighting with the Taliban in Afghanistan and wanting to kill Americans, was involved in one of three suicide bombings that killed seven Iraqi security forces in Mosul on April 26, Defense Department officials said.
They said that after his release in Kuwait, Ajmi traveled to Iraq via Syria -- a common way for foreign fighters to enter Iraq through porous borders. Military officials said Ajmi's motives were unclear, but in a lengthy martyrdom audio recording before his death, Ajmi implores people to take part in suicide bombings to attack Americans.
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