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To: LindyBill who wrote (95918)	4/24/2003 5:49:16 AM
From: Jacob Snyder	Respond to of 281500

<For one thing, the officials said, only a small number of the detainees are members of Al Qaeda. The rest have either been determined to be nobodies, rounded up in the chaotic aftermath of the war, or presumed to be nobodies whose state has not yet been determined. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld offered an explanation of the thinking behind the indefinite regime at Guantánamo when he once suggested that the detainees were being held not necessarily for what they had done but for what they might do.> Preventive detention. Preventive war. Similar concepts, one applied to individuals, the other to nations. We'll probably need to start doing that with the Shiite clerics in Iraq, before we totally lose control of the Street. Operation Iraqi Freedom. Right.