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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (244303)	10/8/2007 2:05:30 PM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Elroy, ordinary burglars and murderers do not belong to a huge organization. For all we know, neither do the detainees at Gitmo, which are the people we are discussing. Do you have any proof that all of them are members of any huge organization? Take 100,000 men motivated by religious fanaticism across many national boundaries, who are in a sea of millions of passive sympathizers, and you have multiplied the problem a thousand fold. We have no proof that the people at Gitmo are motivated by religious fanatacism, so again you're going off topic. We're talking about trying the detainees at Gitmo, who may be members of a fanatical multinational SMERF-like terrorist organization, or they may be farmers who pointed a gun in the wrong direction (while not wearing their farmer uniform). We really don't know. Since we can't afford to let Al Qaeda operate freely for years while we infiltrate them (supposing we had competent intelligence services, which we don't) we cannot afford to wait all arrests til we have the big fish in hand. Since we can't, we cannot afford to arrest a few little fish and tell the big fish we have done it and exactly how we caught them. This is precisely what a criminal trial does. Telling how the Gitmo detainees were captured in Afghanistan doesn't sound like very top secret information to me. And Al Qaeda hasn't been operating freely for years. From what I can tell, their capabilities have been amazingly reduced. So tell me this - if the detainees at Gitmo were to be brought to trial, in ANY court, say a civilian court, how would Al Qaeda benefit? The US would benefit by ending an institution regugnant to many Americans and repugnant to most of the free world. The US might lose if the defendants were found innocent, but that would be justice. How, exactly, would Al Qaeda benefit?