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Vendaval -> Taliban and al Qaida militants recruited at Guantanamo Bay (6/20/2008 3:25:42 AM)
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"Militants found recruits among Guantanamo's wrongly detained"
By Tom Lasseter, McClatchy Newspapers
Wed Jun 18, 5:24 PM ET
"A McClatchy investigation found that instead of confining terrorists, Guantanamo often produced more of them by rounding up common criminals, conscripts, low-level foot soldiers and men with no allegiance to radical Islam - thus inspiring a deep hatred of the United States in them - and then housing them in cells next to radical Islamists.
The radicals were quick to exploit the flaws in the U.S. detention system.
Soldiers, guards or interrogators at the U.S. bases at Bagram or Kandahar in Afghanistan had abused many of the detainees, and they arrived at Guantanamo enraged at America.
The Taliban and al Qaida leaders in the cells around them were ready to preach their firebrand interpretation of Islam and the need to wage jihad, Islamic holy war, against the West. Guantanamo became a school for jihad, complete with a council of elders who issued fatwas, binding religious instructions, to the other detainees."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20080618/wl_mcclatchy/2969823;_ylt=AsdGMTCzE0Lyuj6Vx2bR3XBvaA8F
This article is one of several worth reading from McClatchy's Guantanamo: Beyond the Law series. Several debates in the Forums here have raised the question of what would be the eventual results of detainees at Guantanamo Bay. This is one of the results.
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