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2006-07-12 Home Front: WoT

1,000 US 'war on terror' prisoners, says Pentagon

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Posted by Fred 2006-07-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Prepare for the next volley of indignation.

Posted by Captain America 2006-07-12 00:49|| 2006-07-12 00:49|| Front Page Top

#2 Fooey. There are military detention centers in Iraq and Afghanistan. We know, because there was a group escape from one of them a bit ago.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-07-12 04:50|| 2006-07-12 04:50|| Front Page Top

#3 TW is right. I presume the 1000 doesnt include prisoners in Iraq, but it could include the prisoners at Bagram - isnt that a DoD facility? (the detention center i mean, not the airbase)

Posted by liberalhawk 2006-07-12 10:13|| 2006-07-12 10:13|| Front Page Top

#4 It would make me happy to think that Gitmo is a lightning rod. It would mean that our war planners are using the NYT (etc) as predictable dupes.

It's a clever idea. Put a bunch of nobodies at gitmo, treat them well and let the press have a hissy fit over the fact that they don't have ac and prime rib every monday. They press looks foolish but is happy. The BDS sufferers get to shake their heads, moan and wail over it. Average Americans get annoyed and begin to wave off any talk of "torture". And the military gets to do what it needs to do without interferrence.

Let's hope they are doing the same with the leaks.

Posted by 2b 2006-07-12 10:23|| 2006-07-12 10:23|| Front Page Top

#5 The US needs to transfer prisoners of intelligence value from Gitmo to detention centers in terra incognita while the rest can fester at Gitmo until the LLL win their release.

PS Each attorney fighting for their release should be required to house these wacky/terrs for 30 days as part of their rehab.

Wonder how many takers.

Posted by Rightwing 2006-07-12 10:32|| 2006-07-12 10:32|| Front Page Top

#6 I'll bet there aren't any prisoners of intelligence value at Gitmo. I wouldn't be surprised to find that Gitmo was designed from day 3 to be a PR sink for the LLLs. Better to give them a bone to chew on than have them running all over the neighborhood looking for one.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-07-12 11:05|| 2006-07-12 11:05|| Front Page Top

#7 The problem is you are being rationale, using facts and logic.

Since when has the propagandists used either?

Posted by Captain America 2006-07-12 11:11|| 2006-07-12 11:11|| Front Page Top

#8 I'll bet there aren't any prisoners of intelligence value at Gitmo

And you'd win. If you look at all the guys they've identified as being there, they're all low-level cannon fodder for the most part. Biggist guy ID'd was Binny's ex-driver.

The really big fish kind of disappear into a black hole. A few may be in Bagram in Afghanistan, but that appears to be only for those captured locally. Rumor has it there's a big holding tank on an "Indian ocean island that must not be named", but that's never mentioned officially. The press doesn't even seem to talk about it, they're too busy looking in Europe for secret camps. Guess the lunches are better there.

Posted by Steve">Steve 2006-07-12 15:02|| 2006-07-12 15:02|| Front Page Top

#9 What's the price of a .308 cartridge these days? A buck? Fiddy cents? C'mon, DOD, I'm in for a few dollars.

Can we get a check-off box on next year's 1040 to help fund this project?

Posted by Parabellum 2006-07-12 17:40|| 2006-07-12 17:40|| Front Page Top

#10 "although it acknowledged that it lacked formal proof for this."

Erm! we made it all up to encourage controversy. look it was good for our domestica chances of being reelected, just chill you don't take this shit seriously do you?

Posted by pihkalbadger 2006-07-12 21:27|| 2006-07-12 21:27|| Front Page Top

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