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| Guantanamo recidivism rate climbs higher |
| 2011-09-16 |
| From Long War Journal... During a joint hearing of the Senate and House intelligence committees yesterday, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper testified that the recidivism rate for former Guantanamo detainees has risen to an estimated 27 percent. The total number of "confirmed" and "suspected" recidivists, according to Clapper, is now 161. "Many of them have been taken off the battlefield through kinetic encounters," Clapper explained, with respect to the recidivists. Ah, "kinetic encounters". What? Did you hit them with a bowling ball? One of these "kinetic encounters" occurred earlier this month, when Afghan and Coalition security forces killed a former Guantanamo detainee named Sabar Lal Melma 16-pound ball at 800 yards. A combination strike and a hole in one... and captured another ex-Guantanamo detainee during a raid in Afghanistan. Thus reducing Sabar's recidivism rate to zero percent... Melma, according to an International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) press release, was "a key affiliate of the al Qaeda network" and "responsible for attacks and financing insurgent operations in the Pech district, Kunar province." Melma was also "in contact with several senior al Qaeda members throughout Kunar and Pakistan." But...not any more. As of December 2010, most of the recidivists remained at large. The DNI reported that 13 were dead, 54 were "in custody," and an additional 83 remained "at large." The current breakdown of killed/captured versus at large recidivists is not publicly available. |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #1 I spoke to a lefty a week ago and I mentioned the recidivism rate of Gitmo alumni. He said that they were all radicalized by our harsh treatment of them. I mentioned that of many of the released alumni did not want to be released because they said the treatment was so favorable. He said, "Yah, Yah Yah... I can't hear you..." |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2011-09-16 16:59 |