How Guantanamo Bay Prevents More Mumbai Massacres
THOMAS Joscelyn explains why Barack Obama needs Guantanamo Bay:
The new administration will soon discover from its review of the Guantanamo files what motivated its predecessor: The scope of the terrorist threat was far greater than anyone knew on September 11, 2001….
Have the horrors like those witnessed in Mumbai been prevented by George Bush’s policies? Can flouting due process be for the greater good?
If the new administration follows the vision set forth by candidate Obama, terrorists such as KSM (pictured), Binalshibh, al-Baluchi, and al-Hawsawi will be tried in our federal courts with the same constitutional protections as American citizens including the presumption of innocence. But trying elite terrorists for their crimes does nothing to expose the unconsummated plots they had already set in motion at the time of their capture… KSM and Khan were not the only high value detainees to give up crucial, life-saving details during their interrogations…
But the Obama administration is sure to ask: How dangerous are the other detainees? … We reviewed all of the unclassified documents for these 242 detainees as part of a comprehensive six-month study. Here are our findings.
…our review found at least 116 (48 percent) to be allegedly connected to the jihadist recruiting network. This includes both recruiters and those recruited or inspired by the network to wage jihad…
…our review found that at least 146 (60 percent) are alleged to have either operated or stayed in an al Qaeda or Taliban guesthouse…
…our review found that at least 174 (72 percent) were either trainers or trainees…our review identified at least 112 (46 percent) who are alleged to have participated in hostilities. The bulk of these fought on the front lines in Afghanistan against either the Northern Alliance or American forces.
Is everyone in Guantanmo Bay innocent? And if Guantanamo Bay is the answer, then what is it the answer to?
In other War On Terror news:
WOMEN BITE DOGS IN IRAQ: “Eighteen females in northern Iraq who were associated with Al-Qaeda in Iraq suicide bombing cells turned themselves into Coalition forces on Nov. 26.”
Free will…
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November 28th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Ouch, June; I’d managed to wipe that one from the memory banks before you reminded me…
The Babylon exhibition at the British Museum has a brief but very scary reference to the way in which the US obliterated some of the most important archaelogical remains of the civilised world; the globalisation of US culture has turned out to be as successful as the globalisation of the US financial markets…
November 28th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
I recall the scene in Baghdad when the US military flew the US flag for a few mistaken moments , and they realised their error.
November 28th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
that is another viewpoint seemingly out of the Bush rangers vision
November 28th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
Or stand it on its head; even if they were rigourous supporters of the virtues of democracy when they went into Guantanamo, they may have lost their enthusiasm upon discovering that the Constitution proved not to be worth the paper it was written on…