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| American taxpayers have spent jaw-dropping amount on keeping 9/11 mastermind alive |
| 2021-02-01 |
| [FoxNews] Guantanamo Bay has grown into what seems to be the most expensive prison on earth Built nearly 18 years ago to detain suspected terrorists on a U.S. naval base in Cuba, Guantanamo Bay has grown into what seems to be the most expensive prison on earth. The U.S. government has spent an estimated $161.5 million housing the suspected mastermind of the 9/11 terror attacks — Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. And up until Saturday, Mohammed was to receive a coronavirus vaccine so that he could be tried and put to death, if convicted. A .22 cartridge costs 2 cents (when you could buy ammo) and makes for a most satisfying conclusion. Captured in 2003, Sheikh Mohammed confessed to being a mastermind behind some of the most prolific terror attacks in the past few decades, most notably the 9/11 attacks. Mohammed's death penalty trial was originally set for Jan. 11, 2021, but it was delayed due to the pandemic. Or Joe Biden, like his sire Barack, will find a way to trade him and many others for some American traitor. A lack of vaccinations had reportedly made it difficult for federal prosecutors to move forward with war crimes hearings at the base, which is why Terry Adirim, the principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for health affairs under President Biden, signed an order Jan. 27 to vaccinate the suspected terrorists, a Pentagon spokesperson told the New York Post. Two defense officials confirmed the plan to Fox News. The Defense Department reversed course Saturday. "No Guantanamo detainees have been vaccinated," Defense Department press secretary John Kirby tweeted. "We're pausing the plan to move forward, as we review force protection protocols. We remain committed to our obligations to keep our troops safe." It's not exactly clear how much the federal government spends housing its Gitmo prisoners, but it's somewhere between $9.5 and $13 million per prisoner, per year. The prison currently has 40 inmates. That's compared to $78,000 spent per inmate at a "supermax" prison in Florence, Colo., home to some of the highest-risk prisoners in the U.S. Using the $9.5 million figure NPR reached in a 2020 report, U.S. spending in the 17 years Mohammed has spent at the prison has topped $161 million. Guantanamo has reportedly cost U.S. taxpayers over $6 billion since its inception. Included in that figure are charter planes to and from the island with few passengers, hundreds of thousands' worth of government devices that are destroyed each year to spills of classified information, Pentagon-funded defense attorneys priced at half a million dollars per year and total legal costs amounting to $60 million, even though Guantanamo has only ever had one finalized conviction. But the New York Times tally edges the number up to $13 million per prisoner, per year. "I think it's crazy," former President Trump said of the cost. Related: Guantanamo Bay: 2021-01-31 Pentagon halts plan to give COVID vaccine to alleged 9/11 mastermind, Gitmo detainees Guantanamo Bay: 2021-01-30 Alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammad to get COVID vaccine Guantanamo Bay: 2020-10-08 'Increasingly hostile': Flynn lawyers argue Judge Sullivan must recuse from case due to bias Related: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: 2021-01-31 Pentagon halts plan to give COVID vaccine to alleged 9/11 mastermind, Gitmo detainees Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: 2021-01-30 Alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammad to get COVID vaccine Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: 2021-01-30 Pakistan seeks review of acquittals in Daniel Pearl murder case |
| Posted by:Wholulet Thigum4957 |
| #1 Sorry - The GD-men (Guantanamo Detainees) should be released and resettled here in America; Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles or any of the other 163 Sanctuary Cities across the USA (or whatever it is to be called after 21Jan2021). They would be condemned to live like the rest of us,but they would be constantly looking over their shoulders for people who figured out who they really were/are/could have been in their old islamic world and their "Hit on America". Beyond that just the "new normal" the pressure of having perpetual 4 layer covid masks CDC enforced to allow travel, domestic covid medical passports, driving around with the other invaders who now have their sanctioned alien drivers licenses. The lists unfold daily with Xiden at the helm (hide all the pens so jo can't sign anymore) commaLA "here is a crayon sign it anyway". |
| Posted by: Thor Thomp8704 2021-02-01 04:53 |