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2006-02-10 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Dan Darling 2006-02-10 00:40|| || Front Page|| [11135 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 How about smelling flowers through their roots?

Posted by gromgoru 2006-02-10 05:30|| 2006-02-10 05:30|| Front Page Top

#2 LOL grom..pushing up wilted daisys.

Posted by RD 2006-02-10 06:55|| 2006-02-10 06:55|| Front Page Top

#3 The majority of prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay naval base are not accused of committing hostile acts against the United States or its allies, and only a small percentage were captured by U.S. forces, a review of government documents has found.

"The large majority of detainees never participated in any combat against the United States on a battlefield," concluded a report compiled at Seton Hall University's law school, in New Jersey, and given to Reuters on Thursday.

The report analyzed unclassified government summaries [Don't think the classified stuff may have more info that has related details on collection methods?] of evidence the military used in 2004 hearings to decide whether 517 Guantanamo detainees were enemy combatants. One of the authors, Seton Hall law professor Mark Denbeaux, represents two Guantanamo prisoners.

And the Professor was in Afghanistan? When and where. Oh, but he doesn't have to. He's a lawyer. He can make any absurd claims he wants.

Message - this is a war, not a procedural process before a bench in peacetime.

Posted by Elmains Spomomp5231 2006-02-10 07:14|| 2006-02-10 07:14|| Front Page Top

#4 I guess "smelling flowers through their roots" sounds better in original Hebrew.

Posted by gromgoru 2006-02-10 07:50|| 2006-02-10 07:50|| Front Page Top

#5 One detainee was considered an enemy combatant because he was conscripted into Taliban forces as a cook's assistant, the report said.

So a US army cook's assistant doesn't qualify as a combatant?

Hooboy, they do NOT want to start sawing on the limb they've climbed onto.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2006-02-10 12:30|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-02-10 12:30|| Front Page Top

#6 It's a lovely image, gromgoru, once one realizes an actual action isn't meant (my first thought was lying amongst the reeds breathing air through anothre reed while the hunters cast about impotently). And not one taught in my Heebrew School classes, even if we did read Amoz Oz in the original.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-02-10 12:35|| 2006-02-10 12:35|| Front Page Top

#7 How about smelling flowers through their roots?

That's a good one, sounds like poetry to the Capn.

Posted by Captain America 2006-02-10 14:32|| 2006-02-10 14:32|| Front Page Top

#8 This affects their status how? Many of those released have returned to terrorist activity. The "Human Rights" people and MSM must think we have their attention span.

I have AADD and I have a better grasp of the real struggle than 99.9% of the MSM and a much better concept of "human rights" than most of these communist and socialist front groups.

Posted by Sock Puppet O´ Doom 2006-02-10 14:56|| 2006-02-10 14:56|| Front Page Top

#9 Actually, this is very old news. The authories said as much when Gitmo was opened (or not long thereafter). Part of the reason for the tribunals held there was to determine who belonged there, and who could safely be let go.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-02-10 19:20|| 2006-02-10 19:20|| Front Page Top

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