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If they were not terrorists before they went to Guantanamo, they will surely have the proper motivation to be terrorists if and when we set them free. -- Steele The First
No doubt, but the MSM will have a different take on the blowback:
Military reports rise in Gitmo detainees rejoining terror fight as Obama eyes closing prison
By LARA JAKES | Associated Press Writer
4:49 PM EST, January 13, 2009
"WASHINGTON (AP) — Terror suspects who have been held but released from Guantanamo Bay are increasingly returning to the fight against the United States and its allies [emphasis added], the Pentagon said Tuesday.
Sixty-one detainees released from the U.S. Navy base prison in Cuba are believed to have rejoined the fight, said Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell, citing data from December. That's up from 37 as of March 2008, he said..."
http://www.newsday.com/topic/sns-ap-guantanamo-detainees,0,820068.story?track=rss-topicgallery
There's no question, as far as Ms Lakes and the AP are concerned, that they were terrorists before they got to Gitmo. No one need question whether these men, after years of illegal detention and torture, joined the fight because of their ordeal.
