Killing Time

We all remember the wailing and complaining in the USA from the liberal crowd about Camp Delta at Gitmo. The anti-war crowd complained that the U.S. government was unfairly detaining innocent men swept up on foreign battlefields by cowboy soldiers and Marines. The U.N. high commissioner for human rights has called Gitmo a “legal black hole.”

Critics of Gitmo - Or Morons Against Detaining Terrorists

Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said, “Guantanamo Bay is an international embarrassment to our nation, to our ideals and remains a festering threat to our security.” He also asked that the terrorists being held by U.S. forces should be prosecuted as criminals. “Let’s prosecute them. Let’s bring the evidence (of criminal or terrorist activity) forward.”

2) Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., compared our troops and soldiers working at Camp X-Ray to Nazi concentration camp guards and Khmer Rouge killers. Sen. Durbin was moved to this conclusion by his discovery that prisoners at Camp X-Ray were too cold, then too hot, were chained to their floors and assaulted with … rap music. “If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime -Pol Pot or others – that had no concern for human beings. Sadly, that is not the case. This was the action of Americans in the treatment of their prisoners,” Durbin said.

3) Former President Jimmy Carter and Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del. the ranking member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, have also called for the closing of Camp X-Ray (Gitmo) and the other camps where terrorists are being held. This is because “the U.S. continues to suffer terrible embarrassment and a blow to our reputation,” and because “more Americans are in jeopardy as a consequence of the perception that exists worldwide with its existence than if there were no Gitmo.”

The truth of the matter is that Guantanamo Bay Naval Base houses hard core Islamic “enemy combatants” from 42 countries who wish to destroy Western ‘infidel’ civilization and replace it with a Islamic theocracy.

What Happened to Prisoners Already Released? – Many Continued Terrorism Career

At least seven former prisoners of the United States at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been involved in terrorist acts, despite gaining their freedom by signing pledges to renounce violence, according to the Pentagon.

At least two are believed to have died in fighting in Afghanistan, and a third was recaptured during a raid of a suspected training camp in Afghanistan, Lt. Cmdr. Flex Plexico, a Pentagon spokesman, said last week. Others are at large.

The former prisoners include Abdullah Mehsud, accused by Pakistani authorities of overseeing the recent kidnapping of two Chinese engineers, one of whom was beheaded.

One of those released murdered a judge as he left his mosque in Afghanistan.

Latest Gitmo Prisnor Release Terrorism Scandal – Russian Style

RUSSIAN police have arrested a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner on suspicion of taking part in this month’s bloody attack on the southern Russian spa town of Nalchik.

Rasul Kudayev, who was returned to Russia in February last year, was detained on Sunday at his home in Nalchik, according to his mother and his lawyer.

Interfax said that he was arrested after police questioned participants in the October 13 raid on Nalchik, the capital of the republic of Kabardino-Balkariya, in which at least 128 people were killed. It said that Mr Kudayev, 24, was suspected of taking part in an attack on a traffic police post in the village of Khasanye, near Nalchik.

His mother, Fatima, denied that her son had been involved with the militants who carried out the attack. She said: “He’s been at home the whole time since he was released. We never go to see people and nobody comes to see us. He is very sick.”

Clive Stafford Smith, a lawyer for Mr Kudayev, said that the allegations were based on a groundless tip-off. He added: “Some secret informant allegedly called to say he had a stash of weapons at his house. The search revealed this to be false, but they still took him in.”

Mr Stafford Smith, legal director of Reprieve, a British charity, is helping the seven Russian Guantanamo prisoners to sue the US Government over their treatment.

If Mr Kudayev’s alleged role in the attacks is not proven, his arrest will be seen as an example of how the Russian authorities’ heavy-handed tactics are alienating people across the North Caucasus, analysts said. And if it is proven, it will be an embarrassment for Russian authorities as they pushed hard for his return from Guantanamo Bay. Mr Kudayev was one of eight Russian citizens arrested by US troops as “enemy combatants” in Afghanistan in 2001 and taken to Camp X-Ray at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Russian prosecutors visited in 2002 and demanded that the so-called “Russian Talibs” be extradited. In February last year, seven were handed back to Russia, where they were charged with illegal crossing of a state border, mercenary activities and participation in a criminal gang. The charges were dropped and the men released in June last year.

Channel One, the state-controlled television station, reported that they had been sold to the US by the Taleban. Mr Kudayev said in the report that he had studied Islam in Saudi Arabia before joining the Taleban. He complained about his treatment at Guantanamo. “They were told not to touch us below the waist and not to take our Korans,” he said. “But they searched us very rudely. When they did not find anything, I spat in their faces. They took me to the cell, sprayed me with gas and beat me.”

It is interesting that the critics of Gitmo have no trouble comparing the US military to the Nazis but never have a harsh word for the terrorists housed there? Makes you wonder.