Pentagon: More return to fight after leaving Gitmo

[unhappycamper]

Pentagon: More return to fight after leaving Gitmo
By PAULINE JELINEK and ANNE FLAHERTY
Associated Press Writers
Jan 7, 1:15 AM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) -- One in five terror suspects released from the Guantanamo Bay prison has returned to the fight, according to a classified Pentagon report expected to stoke an already fierce debate over President Barack Obama's plan to close the military prison.

The finding reflects an upward trend on the recidivism rate, although human rights activists who advocate closing the prison have questioned the validity of such numbers.

Early last year, the Pentagon reported that the rate of released detainees returning to militancy was 11 percent. In April, it was 14 percent. The latest figure was 20 percent, according to a U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the report had not been declassified and released.

Critics of the reports say there is so little information in the assessments that they are nearly impossible to verify independently. Civil rights advocates say the number of fighters suspected of or confirmed as returning to the battlefield is likely to be much smaller.

According to a senior administration official, the White House has not been presented with information that suggests that any of the detainees transferred during the Obama administration has returned to the fight.


Rest of Stripes article at: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_GUANTANAMO_REPEATERS?SITE=DCSAS&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

[sarge43]

1. Another bulletin from the N.S. Sherlock Institute for the Patently Obvious n/t

[FBaggins]

2. Ok... I get why this is a concern... but it's a CLASSIFIED report.

Why am I reading about it on the AP?