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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (96388)	4/26/2003 3:12:08 AM
From: D. Long	Respond to of 281500

1. Even out of date intel may have value 2. That's the traditional structure of such operations, but it appears Al Qaeda only loosely conforms to this: The hijackers of 9/11 did not maintain operational compartmentalization, and neither did many operatives in Europe apparently. 3. First, you can't say "many" are Taliban because nobody posting to this board knows the breakdown of how many apples and oranges are sitting in Gitmo. Second, even under the terms of the Geneva Convention, we can hold Taliban, because Taliban are still engaging in hostilities with US and Afghan forces in Afghanistan. Third, whether they probably are or are not more dangerous is certainly more than speculation - they joined Al Qaeda, and thus have established that they are predisposed to engaging in hostile acts against US interests, and thus are a threat. As to holding people for life for bad things they MAY do, we do it all the time. One theory of punishment posits that punishment is proportional to the probable future harm to society the convicted poses. We sentence murderers to life, or death, because the possible future harm to society outweighs any judgement in favor of their personal liberty. Membership in Al Qaeda, which is an international terrorist organization which has acted, on multiple occassions in multiple ways, to cause serious or catastrophic harm, is certainly cause enough to warrant life without hope of parole. Derek