Gitmo and the detainees

As I was pouring over old files I came across this I wrote back in Jan of 2010.  Seems I had pretty strong feelings about Guantanamo, and to revisit those feelings I thought I would share.  Prescient then, moreso now.

Enjoy.

Gitmo: Club Med for the Followers of Allah

   Those held at Gitmo are mostly jihadists, and their reason for being there has little if anything to do with Israel.  It is not uncommon for intelligence to pass from one partner to the other, no surprise that Israel, if armed with the knowledge would have shared it with US forces, thus resulting in a capture.  To intimate that Israel somehow snatches innocent Muslims off the street and provides them to the US in exchange for a favor is, as far as I know false.  No evidence I have ever seen even hints at that.  If it is true, I condemn it.

  You ask, how can I claim to know their ideology when I don't know about them personally or their situation which brought them to Gitmo.  You're right, I don't know those details, but that is irrelevant inasmuch as the ideology of Islam, as defined and practiced by it's leaders today is the over-riding force, the prime source if you will guiding and directing their actions day to day.  Whatever claims made as to hardship, upbringing or social status being somehow related to how they point a gun or send a rocket is laughable.  It is not poor disadvantaged Muslims doing dastardly deeds, it is the educated, the elite at times, the ones who can read, think and plan.

  Sura 9, verse 29 is known as the sword verse or the jihad verse.  This is a primary source of hatred from the "religion of peace"         

PICKTHAL: Fight against such of those who have been given the Scripture as believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, and forbid not that which Allah hath forbidden by His messenger, and follow not the Religion of Truth, until they pay the tribute readily, being brought low.

  Gitmo detainees are intimately familiar with this sura and consistently use it as one of many Qur'anic justifications for their actions.

  If all these detainees are just innocents, well that just flies in the face of recent history.

  The number of former Gitmo prisoners slipping back into their old, nasty jihadist ways is growing, despite programs to re-educate them away from jihad and into things like art and painting.  At least 74 former detainees are back to their evil ways....

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/item_6khr8yYoqSBL0BpoUsmxOI;jsessionid=D49760D508403FE81B48544D34C080CA

   The Saudis, not known for human fair-play have a problem with inmates we released...

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/02/04/11-ex-Gitmo-prisoners-on-Saudi-wanted-list/UPI-59381233753504/

   We even have one who, after release became upper management of Al-Qaeda....

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/world/middleeast/23yemen.html?_r=3

   There are many more examples of the behaviour of Gitmo detainees and how they are NOT the innocent little lambs portrayed by the PC press.  Again I will say that there are indeed a few at Gitmo who have or want nothing to do with jihadists or blowing things/people up.  When found out, give'em 50 bucks and a new suit and boot them back to their home country. 

   As to conditions at Gitmo, I would rather be incarcerated at Gitmo than here in the US.  Every fact-finding mission to Gitmo has shown consistently that the Muslims there get far better treatment than even what they get in their country of origin.  It matters not who looks at Gitmo; civilian, NGO or gvnmt the results are the same.

   Here is a first-hand account from a minister....

http://blogcritics.org/politics/article/first-hand-account-of-conditions-at/

   From the book "Inside Gitmo"....

http://www.insidegitmo.com/Chapters/Inside_Gitmo_Chapter_10.html

   Afghanistan approves of Gitmo....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/14/AR2006061400409.html

   Seems the kids like us.....

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/mar/06/guantanamo.usa

   Famous New Orleans football quarterback sees nothing wrong with Gitmo....

http://blog.nola.com/jeffduncan/2009/07/_drew_brees_is_a.html

   There is no denying that abuses have occured and those responsibile are held responsibile.  However the conditions at Gitmo, the treatment prisoners receive is top-notch and their welfare is attended to.

   With the majority of detainees clearly jihadist-oriented, and the dangers of releasing them after a civilian trial (if found innocent, of course) quite clear, it makes sense to maintain Gitmo and keep them where it is easiest to monitor, control and ultimately dispense justice of an appropriate kind.

   The safety of Americans is paramount.  Our leaders are charged to protect and defend from all threats both foreign and domestic.  Bringing Gitmo detainees to the US has the grave potential for undermining our security.