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To: Road Walker who wrote (8518)	5/26/2009 4:03:56 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86356

So since we already have dangerous criminals on the streets, we shouldn't object to having a few hundred trained terrorists released on the streets too? LOL... yeah and we're going to set them up with a chemical lab. Jeez. We don't need to. There are wealthy folks in the ME who'll finance whatever they need. I know they are all going to spend the rest of their lives in an 8' X 8'. I don't know it. They weren't read their rights, I suspect, when arrested. You know, at least one lawyer has already brought that up. And if one, mind you one, managed to get released (VERY highly unlikely) he would be followed 24/7 until he committed some minor infraction and then be given 20 to life for jaywalking. So you're okay with trumping up charges on them to hold them for life. Why not just keep them locked up in the first place? Why do you object to Gitmo if you are willing to lcck them up for life on trumped up charges? You guys are constant fear mongers... it won't work. There are 100 people living within 50 miles of you that are 10X as dangerous. Maybe. I hope they're being watched and see no need to give that population an injection of new blood. I do recall though that 18 of these guys killed 3000+ Americans almost 8 years ago and none of the supposed 100 people w/i 50 miles of me have done that. Thanks again for insisting the Gitmo detainees are no danger at all and releasing them in America is A-OK. Now write a Democratic Congressman and demand they be admitted into the country as the Dear Leader wants.

To: Road Walker who wrote (8518)	5/26/2009 11:08:31 PM
From: Peter van Steennis	Respond to of 86356

Pentagon: Some released detainees return to battle By LARA JAKES Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- Five percent of Guantanamo Bay detainees have participated in terrorist activities since their release from the U.S. Navy prison, the Pentagon said Tuesday. An additional 9 percent are believed to have joined - or rejoined - the fight against the U.S. and its allies, according to Defense Department data released amid a simmering political battle over where to send the detainees if the prison closes in January as planned. Constitutional scholars have long cast doubt on the Pentagon's detainee data, saying it's not proven that at least some of those who were released were even linked to terrorism in the first place. The Pentagon maintains that all the suspects held at the Navy-run detention center in Cuba were captured and, in most cases, held for years, because of suspected ties to al-Qaida, the Taliban or other foreign fighter groups. "What this tells us is, at the end of the day, there are individuals, that if released, will again return to terrorist activities," Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said Tuesday. As of April 7, the latest data available, 74 of approximately 540 detainees who have been released have since taken up the fight, or are at least suspected of doing so. The Pentagon says it has fingerprints, DNA, photos or reliable intelligence to link 27 detainees to the war since their release. The other 47 detainees are believed to be involved with terrorist activity because of what the Pentagon described as significant reporting or analysis, or unverified but plausible information from a single source, suggesting it. Terrorist activity includes participating in or funding attacks, plots or training camps, Whitman said. Speaking out against the United States, or participating in other anti-U.S. propaganda alone is not considered terrorist activity, the Pentagon said. A list of 29 of the released detainees the Pentagon distributed with the data shows that five of them have since been killed and three retaken into custody. The Pentagon did not release the list of all 74 detainees, citing security concerns about classified information. Others on the partially released list included: -Said Mohammed Alim Shah, who was sent to Afghanistan in March 2004, where he was released. The U.S. says it has linked him to the kidnapping of two Chinese engineers, an Islamabad hotel bombing and an April 2007 suicide attack that killed 31 people. -Mohammed bin Ahmad Mizouz and Ibrahim bin Shakaran, both released in Morocco in July 2004. They are accused of recruiting for al-Qaida in Iraq. -Timur Ravilich, sent to Russia in March 2004. The Pentagon says he was involved in an unspecified gas line bombing. Get a grip Walker, wake up and smell the coffee.