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news.yahoo.com - 1/13/2009

Pentagon: 61 ex-Guantanamo inmates return to terrorism - Yahoo! News

— news.yahoo.com — WASHINGTON (Reuters) The Pentagon said on Tuesday that 61 former detainees from its military prison camp at... Guantanamo Bay, Cuba , appear to have returned to terrorism since their release from custody. Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said 18 former ... (more) Pentagon: 61 ex-Guantanamo inmates return to terrorism - ...

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gatewaypundit.blogspot.com - 1/13/2009

Pentagon: 61 Gitmo Grads Returned to Terror

— gatewaypundit.blogspot.com — Former Gitmo detainee Abdallah Salih al-Ajmi recently exploded in Iraq. Abdallah Salih al-Ajmi was released from Gitmo... in November 2005. The WaPo reported that Ajmi left a lengthy martyrdom audio recording before his death. Ajmi implored people to ... (more) Pentagon: 61 Gitmo Grads Returned to Terror

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bostonherald.com - 1/14/2009

Pentagon: Guantanamo detainees back to battlefield

— bostonherald.com — W ASHINGTON Terror suspects who have been held but released from Guantanamo Bay are increasingly returning to... the fight against the United States and its allies, the Pentagon said today. Sixty-one detainees who have been released from the U.S. Navy ... (more) Pentagon: Guantanamo detainees back to battlefield

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Pentagon Pushes Debunked "Returning To Terror" Hype
Newshoggers.com — ... about a Pentagon statement that 61 former detainees from the Guantanamo Bay facility "appear to have returned to terrorism since their release from custody." But that bald figure is very misleading. ...

Pentagon Pushes Debunked "Returning To Terror" Hype
Crooks and Liars — The pro-Gitmo, pro-torture camp are getting all excited about a Pentagon statement that 61 former detainees from the Guantanamo Bay facility "appear to have returned to terrorism since their release from custody." But that bald figure is very misleading. Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said 18 former detainees are confirmed as "returning to the fight" and 43 are suspected of having done in a report issued late in December by the Defense Intelligence Agency. Morrell declined to provide details such as the identity of the former detainees, why and where they were released or what actions they have taken since leaving U.S. custody. ...

He’s Off to a Great Start
RedState: Conservative News and Community — One of The One’s first acts was signing an  Executive Order which is supposed to close down the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. Other than Jack Murtha’s offer to move them all to his district, there seems to be no plan to deal with the dangerous prisoners. Apparently sending them home is out of the question for reasons I’m not terribly clear on. Off course, some feckless Euro can always be prevailed upon to take in a terrorist or ten. What is pretty obvious is that we can’t have a catch and release program. Two men we released since Robert Gates began his I’m-Not-Rumsfeld toadying offensive have now returned to leadership positions in ...

See No Evil
Weekly Standard Blog — ... The June 13, 2008, report noted that 37 former detainees were “confirmed or suspected” of returning to terrorism. On January 13, 2009, seven months later, Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said that number had climbed to 61. Now, according to the Times, the DOD has found that same metric has risen further to 74--exactly double the Pentagon’s estimate just 11 months ago. ...

Are you kidding me?
doubleplusundead — Are you kidding me? No, really ? It seems to be a new Cheneyite talking point that x% of those already released from Guantanamo have "returned to the battlefield." From the evidence I've seen the claim itself is questionable. But if it's true, how is this a point in favor of Cheney and the Bush administration? Um, well, Josh, it's because you and Obama and all of your lefty pals have been arguing that we should release all of the Gitmo prisoners since about September 12, 2001. And Cheney and the Bush administration argued that they ought to be detained until the war that they started on 9/11 (I'm being generous here, considering the idea that they started this war in 1979 with the Iranian ...

Newsweek Dismisses Danger of Gitmo Terrorists on the Loose
Moonbattery — ... Are you concerned that for the sake of Comrade Obama's sanctimonious posturing, deadly terrorists will be released from Club Gitmo to inflict future 9/11-style atrocities on the innocent? Relax. It's true that Gitmo alumni tend to return to terrorism after being released. But our intellectual superiors among the liberal elite assure us that the real problem is that too many criminals are incarcerated. From ...