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

[Vinnie From Indy]

1. This is total bullshit!

Notice the story does not use actual numbers of people and uses percentages instead. The story also gives zero proof that any of the claims are true. Who were these people that went back to the battlefield? And, if the claims are true, what does that say about the Pentagons ability to interrogate and evaluate the prisoners in their care?

The whole thing stinks to high heaven in my opinion.

[unhappycamper]

2. I think the folks at the five-sided Puzzle Palace were trying some weed. n/t

[90-percent]

3. "returned to the fight"

that presumes the detainees were engaged in fighting to begin with. I think about half are merely poor bastards in the wrong place at the wrong time that got turned in by acquaintances for the big bounty the US was using to capture "terrorists".

I think if you went in to Gitmo under these circumstances, the experience would convert you towards getting revenge against your unjust captors that stripped you of your human rights.

In other words, sending innocent people to Gitmo would probably convert most to terrorism.

-90% Jimmy