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2009-02-24 Arabia

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Posted by Fred 2009-02-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top
File under: al-Qaeda

#1 His case illuminates a key challenge facing the Obama administration as it considers how to close the U.S. military prison and resolve the futures of the approximately 245 incarcerated there. Once detainees are sent home, even to friendly nations, the United States has very little influence over what happens to them. Convictions are not guaranteed. Neither is surveillance by home countries. And for those allowed to go free, assistance in resuming a normal life is rare.

When W was in office, only neocon neanderthals wanted to keep Gitmo open. Now that The One is in, it's a difficult thig, a thought choice.

That's why I love the WaPo.

Posted by Bobby 2009-02-24 06:22|| 2009-02-24 06:22|| Front Page Top

#2 A tough choice. I wuz interrupted.

Posted by Bobby 2009-02-24 06:30|| 2009-02-24 06:30|| Front Page Top

#3 And for those allowed to go free, assistance in resuming a normal life is rare.

Of course, WaPos assumption here is that this toad actually had a normal life to resume. As if his training in a Pakistani Madrassa wasyou knowlike summer camp. Because we all know if it werent for his time at GITMO and the lack of assistance he would return to those happy go lucky days of smoking cigs and shit-hooks in daddys car.

Posted by DepotGuy 2009-02-24 09:53|| 2009-02-24 09:53|| Front Page Top

#4 Give Abdallah a break. He was trying to get to the Spring Break party at Pismo Beach but took a wrong turn at Albuquerque and, poof, ended up in Afghanistan. Could happen to any gay, fun loving muslim boy.

Too top it all off, Abdallah was just trying to get to the Dubai Ramadan Bacchanalia (Hef and the Bunnies were featured) and as luck would have it, took a wrong turn on the Kuwait City interchange and ended up in northern Iraq with an exploding Pinto. It's almost like allah was against him.

Posted by ed 2009-02-24 10:19|| 2009-02-24 10:19|| Front Page Top

#5 But there is also a view in some quarters of the U.S. government that cases such as Ajmi's are the inevitable result of locking up 779 foreigners in an austere military prison, without access to courts or consular representation, and subjecting them to interrogation techniques that detainees say amount to torture. Some of them are bound to seek revenge, these officials believe.

You see, it's all Bush's fault.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-02-24 12:57|| 2009-02-24 12:57|| Front Page Top

#6 Just another confirmation that there are far too many people in leadership positions to which they have no talent or training. Not just in the US, either.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2009-02-24 14:10|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2009-02-24 14:10|| Front Page Top

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