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Friday, January 23, 2009

So now that President Obama has announced his intention to close Guantanamo (within a year, wink), what do we do with the prisoners there? Plan on waiting awhile to find out, especially after this:
A released Guantanamo Bay terror detainee has reemerged as an al-Qaida commander in Yemen, highlighting the dilemma facing President Barack Obama in shaping plans to close the detention facility and decide the fates of U.S. captives.

A U.S. counterterror official confirmed Friday that Said Ali al-Shihri, who was jailed in Guantanamo for six years after his capture in Pakistan, has resurfaced as a leader of a Yemeni branch of al-Qaida.

And then there is this:

A key question facing Obama's new administration is what to do with the 245 prisoners still confined at Guantanamo. That means finding new detention facilities for hard-core prisoners while trying to determine which detainees are harmless enough to release.

According to the Pentagon at least 18 former Guantanamo detainees have "returned to the fight" and another 43 are suspected of resuming terrorist activities. Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell declined to provide the identity of the former detainees or what their terrorist activities were.

Of course, they are all being held unjustly, according to some, and we should just release them into the U.S. and give them job training! That is actually what was suggested on CNN today! If only the left would actually try caring about those who actually need some help and stop worrying about those who want to kill everyone in sight for being "infidels".

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