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To: Elroy who wrote (206484)	10/14/2004 12:54:11 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574544

Elroy, What could the US government officials have learned from Hamdi about the enemy during his second year in solitary confinement??? Keep him from getting back to the terror business? Majority of these people will never be convicted under the US justice system, and their release will just return them back to the terror business (of which we have numerous examples). What would you do with them. Kerry (and the people who have been reduced to repeating Kerry's talking points) disingenuously say they want to kill Al Qaeda. How about starting by killing this guy? Why go to wastelands of Afghanistan and Pakistan to catch more guys like this guy if we are not going to do anything the people we already have. These guys probably all know the tactics how to fight Americans. Shoot at Americans. When you run out of the bullets, just put your hands up, and you are safe, you will be released (eventually), you can reload and kill Americans again. I give credit to Bush for pushing the envelope of the US justice system in direction where these guys can be punished. Kerry and his crowd are all empty talk, and in the background, fight Bush in order to make it impossible to punish these Al Qaeda guys. Joe

To: Elroy who wrote (206484)	10/14/2004 1:41:07 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574544

Doesn't something in this concern you?: Hell, no. I say let them rot in GitMo. THIS is what concerns ME: ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A former Guantanamo prisoner thought to have forged ties with al Qaeda since his release is leading a militant band whose members have strapped explosives on two Chinese engineers they kidnapped in a lawless region near the Afghanistan border. With Pakistani security forces deployed in the mountainous tribal area where the kidnappers are holed up, local leaders sought Tuesday to negotiate the release of the two Chinese, who were building a dam when they were kidnapped Saturday. The five kidnappers threatened to kill the hostages unless the militants are allowed safe passage to a nearby area where their one-legged leader, Abdullah Mehsud, is believed to be hiding, officials said. "We will not accept this demand," Brig. Mahmood Shah, chief of security for Pakistan's northwestern tribal regions, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. Shah said troops surrounded the kidnappers but were refraining from the use of force for the safety of the hostages. Mehsud, 28, came back to Pakistan in March after about two years' detention at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He had been captured by U.S.-allied Afghan forces in Kunduz, northern Afghanistan, in December 2001 while fighting for the Taliban, Pakistani officials said. It was not clear why U.S. authorities released Mehsud. After he returned to his tribal homeland in South Waziristan, he became a rebel leader and has opposed Pakistani forces that are hunting al Qaeda fighters in the semiautonomous area. "Mehsud has become a hero to anti-U.S. fighters active in both Afghanistan and Pakistan," The News daily paper in Islamabad said Tuesday. "He keeps long hair and has a daredevil nature. All this has made him a colorful and interesting character." Associated Press Writers Riaz Khan in Peshawar, Ahsanullah Wazir in Barwand and Sadaqat Jan in Islamabad Contributed to This Report. dfw.com