jlf1961
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ORIGINAL: luckydawg "Actually, recent intel does put seven former detainees from Yemen as founders of the current incarnation of Al Qaeda in Yemen. " really, I would like to see this "recent intel".... The information was on CNN last monday. The source was some security analyst from the bush administration, he said it was from the Saudi government who made the statement that "shortly after being released from "Re Education Centers," these individuals crossed the border back into Yemen and began organizing Al Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula." The major problem with Yemen, is that the borders are porous to say the least. While the individual making the statement might have been flawed or exaggerating the facts, it is the current consensus of many that freed detainees are returning to the fight. Personally, I feel that the detainment center in Gitmo is contrary to what I was trained to understand while in the army. I feel that detainees should have been held in the country of capture, dealt with as insurgent forces or guerrilla forces and therefore not subject to the Geneva Convention as "Enemy Combatants." That is of course if they were captured carrying arms or explosives. If, information was obtained that could be verified as being part of an international terrorist organization, which uses tactics that are forbidden by the Geneva Conventions (i.e purposely targeting civilians and non-combatants) and by the basic teachings of Islam, and tried in a war crimes tribunal similar to the Nuremberg trials, sentenced under the strictest definition of "Crimes against Humanity" and promptly executed if found guilty. I also believe that if a person is tried in a federal court, found guilty of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction, or as planning a terrorist act with the purpose of killing non-combatants (i.e civilians) should be executed. Forget life in a prison that is, by most standards, better than life in some of the countries where these terrorists are from. If they want to die for Allah, by all means, let em die.
< Message edited by jlf1961 -- 1/9/2010 7:20:02 PM >
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Boy, it sure would be nice if we had some grenades, don't you think? You cannot control who comes into your life, but you can control which airlock you throw them out of. Paranoid Paramilitary Gun Loving Conspiracy Theorist AND EQUAL OPPORTUNI
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