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2016-08-16 Home Front: WoT

Clearing out prison, US sends 15 Guantanamo detainees to UAE

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Posted by trailing wife 2016-08-16 01:11|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 Maybe Champ can get it closed before ~~his departure~~ the end of his current term, to cement his legacy.

Posted by Bobby 2016-08-16 07:06|| 2016-08-16 07:06|| Front Page Top

#2 Detainees equal intel...which equals additional targets. Period. Lack of a reasonable location to place detainees harms the long term war effort - the lack of a location to detain HVDs forces planners to go from kill/capture missions to only kill/"drone" missions...we miss a lot of intel and additional targets.

Lack of a reasonable policy and the determination to prosecute war criminals once detained is an injustice to the victims and their families.

Many of these "terror suspects" have victims associated with their war crimes that will not see Justice served because of the deliberate indifference on the behalf of our leaders. We need to force movement on the Military Commissions and prosecution in Federal or Host Nation courts to keep the killers off the battlefields.

Many additional victims will be harmed/killed due to the inability to capture, detain, interrogate, and action on the corroborated intel gained from the interviews and interrogations...future killers remain off the target lists and terror finaciers go unfettered .

Posted by Tennessee 2016-08-16 10:33|| 2016-08-16 10:33|| Front Page Top

#3 Many additional victims will be harmed/killed due to the inability to capture, detain, interrogate

More terrorists would likely be killed too: if there is nowhere to hold them after capture, then they'll just have to be killed instead of captured.

Posted by Glenmore 2016-08-16 12:03|| 2016-08-16 12:03|| Front Page Top

#4 Works for me, Glenmore.

Posted by Barbara 2016-08-16 13:06|| 2016-08-16 13:06|| Front Page Top

#5 More terrorists would likely be killed too: ~~if there is nowhere to hold them after capture, then~~ they'll just have to be killed instead of captured.

FIFY.

Posted by gorb 2016-08-16 13:22|| 2016-08-16 13:22|| Front Page Top

#6 The blood of any innocents or American Mil casualties caused by the Legacy emptying of Gitmo are on Obama's hands. We should demand taht he have a blank wall at his Prezidential Library for that memorium. Plaques? Or just bloody handprints, a la Christopher Stevens?

Posted by Frank G 2016-08-16 15:13|| 2016-08-16 15:13|| Front Page Top

#7 Maybe 0bean can donate the blood to cover that which Americans will spill because of this?

Posted by gorb 2016-08-16 16:14|| 2016-08-16 16:14|| Front Page Top

#8 Trump should announce his plan to fill Gitmo back up. Preferrably with the people who spent the effort to empty it. We have every legal right to hang every detainee in Gitmo and those leaving should be dead.

I find it ironic that Left thinks questioning potential immigrants is a flawed plan yet the Left says nothing of the Obama administration believing the word of enemy combatants as reason to feel comfortable with releasing them.

Posted by Airandee 2016-08-16 18:49|| 2016-08-16 18:49|| Front Page Top

#9 These guys were released to go back to their old careers, so that they can serve as spies for the US.
However, their old buddies that remain alive will probably kill them to thwart this possibility

Posted by Grins Snese4215 2016-08-16 20:10|| 2016-08-16 20:10|| Front Page Top

#10 "tea break's over guys, back on yer heads!!"

Posted by Bov Flimbers 2016-08-16 22:12|| 2016-08-16 22:12|| Front Page Top

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