LAT: Released (Guantanamo) Detainees Join Fight

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THE NATION
Released Detainees Join Fight
At least eight inmates freed from Guantanamo Bay return to battle U.S. and coalition troops.

By Mark Mazzetti, Times Staff Writer


WASHINGTON — At least eight inmates released from detention at the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have returned to the battlefield against U.S. and coalition troops in Afghanistan and Pakistan, prompting complaints inside the Pentagon that international pressure had undermined the U.S. effort to fight Islamic fundamentalism.

The most recent case is that of Abdullah Mehsud, a former Taliban commander released from the detention facility in March, who masterminded the recent kidnapping of two Chinese engineers in Pakistan. One of the engineers was killed during an Oct. 14 rescue attempt by the Pakistani military.

The Mehsud case and incidents involving at least seven other former detainees demonstrate that mounting international pressure to either file charges against the prisoners or release them has led to inevitable mistakes, officials say.

"I think it's time to question whether we are releasing too many of them," said a senior Defense Department official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "The sheer number of people we are seeing on the battlefield is cause for concern."...


http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-detainees22oct22,1,1069608.story?coll=la-home-headlines

[bleedingheart]

1. Duh...we torture them at Gitmo and we think that they will become

capitalists? Did we think they would go home and open a used car dealership or a low interest loan shop?? They are seeking revenge...

This could have been handled so much better.

[bluestateguy]

2. I'm stunned

They lock up people incommunicado, no lawyers, solitary confinment for 23 hours a day and subject them to torture and abuse. They never tell them what they have been charged with or if they will ever be charged with anything at all, and then they express shock that these folks are angry at the United States.

I bet many of these folks were not terrorists when they were locked up, but were only in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong last name. Now, after being treated like pond scum for a year or two, they have probably become terrorists. The war planners have conditioned these folks to embrace terrorism better than Osama ever could.

[saigon68]

3. Send a child to prison

Out comes a hardened criminal

Amerika has been doing this for years.

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4. related article

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=923167