Posts Tagged ‘Guantanamo’

Gallup Poll Shows Support for Keeping Gitmo Open

by Phantom Ace ( 75 Comments › )
Filed under Islamic Terrorism, Islamists, Leftist-Islamic Alliance at June 2nd, 2009 - 9:28 am

Americans by a 2-1 margin oppose closing Gitmo. This is a blow to the Progressive-Islamist alliance and Obama.

Poll: Most oppose closing Gitmo

WASHINGTON — Americans are overwhelmingly opposed to closing the detention center for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay and moving some of the detainees to prisons on U.S. soil, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds.

By more than 2-1, those surveyed say Guantanamo shouldn’t be closed. By more than 3-1, they oppose moving some of the accused terrorists housed there to prisons in their own states.

The findings underscore the difficult task President Obama faces in convincing those at home that he should follow through on his campaign promise to close the prison in Cuba, especially in the absence of a plan of where the prisoners would go.

This should not even have been an issue. Hopefully Americans will wake up on other issues as well. This is a good start.

Tags: Gallup Polls, Guantanamo, Islamo-Fascism, Progressivism
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Freed Guantánamo detainee becomes Al Qaeda leader in Yemen

by Phantom Ace ( 7 Comments › )
Filed under Islamists, Middle East, Terrorism at January 23rd, 2009 - 10:08 am

Obama wants to free these losers. OK he shouldn’t complain when there are more Jihadi atatcks.

Guantánamo detainee resurfaces in terrorist group

The emergence of a former Guantánamo Bay detainee as the deputy leader of Al Qaeda’s Yemeni branch has underscored the potential complications in carrying out the executive order that President Barack Obama signed that the detention center be shut down within a year.

The militant, Said Ali al-Shihri, is suspected of involvement in a deadly bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Yemen’s capital, Sana, in September. He was released to Saudi Arabia in 2007 and passed through a Saudi rehabilitation program for former jihadists before resurfacing with Al Qaeda in Yemen.

This is Hope and Change! Let us Hope these Jihadists Change!

Tags: Al Qaeda, Guantanamo, Yemen
Posted in Islamists, Middle East, Terrorism | 7 Comments »

Clarity

by savage ( 1 Comment › )
Filed under Politics, Terrorism at January 21st, 2009 - 5:41 pm

Let me share something of value to everyone. I present to you the perfect prescription to the closing of Gitmo.

Men, or squads of men, who commit hostilities, whether by fighting, or inroads for destruction or plunder, or by raids of any kind, without commission, without being part and portion of the organized hostile army, and without sharing continuously in the war, but who do so with intermitting returns to their homes and avocations, or with the occasional assumption of the semblance of peaceful pursuits, divesting themselves of the character or appearance of soldiers – such men, or squads of men, are not public enemies, and, therefore, if captured, are not entitled to the privileges of prisoners of war, but shall be treated summarily as highway robbers or pirates.

Straight from here:

INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES IN THE FIELD

promulgated as General Orders No. 100 by President Lincoln, 24 April 1863

Interesting little document, shouldn’t you say?

Where is the clarity of thought in todays government?

Hat tip to Havoc over at GCP….

Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Guantanamo
Posted in Politics, Terrorism | 1 Comment »

Pentagon: 61 ex-Guantanamo Inmates Return To Terrorism

by WrathofG-d ( 6 Comments › )
Filed under Military, Terrorism at January 13th, 2009 - 3:23 pm

Pentagon: 61 ex-Guantanamo inmates return to terrorism

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pentagon said on Tuesday that 61 former detainees from its military prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, appear to have returned to terrorism since their release from custody.

Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said 18 former detainees are confirmed as “returning to the fight” and 43 are suspected of having done in a report issued late in December by the Defense Intelligence Agency.

Morrell declined to provide details such as the identity of the former detainees, why and where they were released or what actions they have taken since leaving U.S. custody.

“This is acts of terrorism. It could be Iraq, Afghanistan, it could be acts of terrorism around the world,” he told reporters.

Morrell said the latest figures, current through December 24, showed an 11 percent recidivism rate, up from 7 percent in a March 2008 report that counted 37 former detainees as suspected or confirmed active militants.

Rights advocates said the lack of details should call the Pentagon’s assertions into question.

“Until enough information is provided to allow the press and the public to verify these claims, they need to be viewed with a healthy degree of skepticism,” said Jennifer Daskal, a Washington-based lawyer for Human Rights Watch.

Rights advocates contend that many Guantanamo detainees have never taken up arms against the United States and say the Defense Department in the past has described former detainees as rejoining “the fight” because they spoke out against the U.S. government.

[The Article]

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Despite this recidivism rate, President-Elect Barack H. Obama still intends on completely closing Guantanamo Bay.

Tags: Guantanamo
Posted in Military, Terrorism | 6 Comments »