Pentagon: Ex-Gitmo detainees resume terror acts

[OnePimpTiger]

Since 2002, 61 former detainees have committed or are suspected to have committed attacks after being released from the detention camp, Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said at a briefing Tuesday.

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For what it's worth...

[streicher187]

Lets see thrown in prison at 15 for no reason, tortured, detained without talking to or seeing family, having your country blown to hell and innocent people killed(probably some relatives)..

Yeah I can see their side 100 percent. IF they were not terrorists before they went in they sure as hell would be after what they went through..

[Aikman_TheGreat]

OnePimp- There is really no reason to post this. People are just going to make excuses for the terrorist and say its our fault. Everything is our fault really. I mean, we put an end to the holocaust and ended the Cold War. But we are some pretty bad people over here in the good ole USA, the world will be a much better place when we're destroyed (more than likely by terrorists). Good luck world.

[ensbergcollector]

this is actually a pretty telling thread based on which side you end up on. Most people will either say

a. "see, these were terrorists and this proves it"

or

b. streicher's answer

[Rockman]

OnePimp- There is really no reason to post this. People are just going to make excuses for the terrorist and say its our fault. Everything is our fault really. I mean, we put an end to the holocaust and ended the Cold War. But we are some pretty bad people over here in the good ole USA, the world will be a much better place when we're destroyed (more than likely by terrorists). Good luck world.

I'm sick of this attitude. In my opinion the world owes us nothing. We didn't end the holocaust so a few years down the road we could pull out the "We ended the holocaust, we are great people" card.

[Aikman_TheGreat]

I'm sick of this attitude. In my opinion the world owes us nothing. We didn't end the holocaust so a few years down the road we could pull out the "We ended the holocaust, we are great people" card.

No, the world doesnt OWE us anything. We dont do it to get stuff in return, but we also dont do it to have terrorists single us out and kill our innocent while the UN sits back and does nothing. Maybe you're happy with that, but I'M NOT.

Yes, there are situations where we've screwed up and maybe turned a guy to terrorism, but thats like saying "I'm not going to wear a seatbelt because one time i read this article where someone died because he WAS wearing a seatbelt".

But, Iran does hate us because we turned our backs on them awhile back and let them be overthrown. So yeah, that was our fault.

[haybierman]

Read an interesting article on this the other day. Of course, its CNN so who knows how accurate it is, and of course anybody can spin statistics in any way to support their own viewpoints but for what it's worth...

'Jihadi rehab' is a possibility for post-Gitmo

Interesting quips include:

"Of the 218 people who have taken part, only nine have since been rearrested after trying to rejoin al Qaeda, Saudi officials told CNN." So there is some recidivism but it looks like the larger chunk may be re-trainable.

"The key to the government-run scheme's success is the way it uses imams, or religious teachers, to explain to the young, radicalized Muslims that not everyone can issue a fatwa. It tells them that what they have been taught previously is wrong: You cannot just go and kill someone."

Anyway, here's the link if you're interested...

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/...hab/index.html

[streicher187]

No, the world doesnt OWE us anything. We dont do it to get stuff in return, but we also dont do it to have terrorists single us out and kill our innocent while the UN sits back and does nothing. Maybe you're happy with that, but I'M NOT.

Yes, there are situations where we've screwed up and maybe turned a guy to terrorism, but thats like saying "I'm not going to wear a seatbelt because one time i read this article where someone died because he WAS wearing a seatbelt".

But, Iran does hate us because we turned our backs on them awhile back and let them be overthrown. So yeah, that was our fault.

SINGLE US OUT are you serious, do you watch the news? We turned our back on Afgan. also that could be why they hated us? WE put hussein in power and WE backed Bin Laden and armed him when we needed him then threw him away when we were done with him.

WE invaded a country that did nothing to us (Iraq).