Guantanamo recidivism
Vice News reports that at least four Guantanamo grads have returned to what they know best. That makes a total of 208 out of 693 detainees (about 30%) who have returned to terrorism or are suspected of returning to their trade according to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI).
The ODNI’s report was released shortly before the House of Representatives voted 244-174 in favor of a bill that seeks to prohibit the federal government from using funds to transfer any more detainees out of the detention facility. The White House has already said Obama would veto the legislation.
Twenty of the remaining 61 Guantanamo detainees have been cleared for transfer to other countries. The Pentagon is expected to move them off of the naval base by the end of the year. The Obama administration has released 32 detainees so far in 2016.
Speaking of Gitmo grads, the fellow in Uruguay, Abu Wael Dhiab, who absconded from his supervised release earlier this year is slipping in and out of a coma brought on by his hunger strike because he wants to return to the Middle East. He’s Syrian, but he’s been sentenced to death in that country in absentia because of his terrorist activities, so he can’t be returned home.
He’s unhappy with his free home and his $500/month stipend from the Uruguayan government and he misses his friends and family.
Ambassador Lee Wolosky, the U.S. special envoy for Guantanamo closure, expressed frustration over Dhiab’s actions in Uruguay, noting that Uruguay’s government had been in “very advanced stages” of bringing the former prisoner’s wife and children from Turkey when he left for Venezuela.
“I think Dhiab has been offered every opportunity by the government of Uruguay to move on with his life and he has disgracefully repudiated the extraordinary hospitality and generosity of the government of Uruguay,” Wolosky said.
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“he’s been sentenced to death in that country in absentia because of his terrorist activities, so he can’t be returned home.”
Dunno, looks like it satisfies his willingness for martyrdom and theirs to kill him. He definitely would commit no further terrorist acts. A win-win for all.
If he winds up as free-fall payload on a B-52, and gets delivered accordingly, he will have been returned to Syria. What’s the big deal?
Drop him off the coast and point him in the right direction. If he can swim and make it there, he gets a free pass.
15-20 miles off cost and bleeding just a little
Recidivism? I’m absolutely shocked, shocked , I tell you! Can you see the shock in my face? /sarc
Actually, the national recidivism rate in the US is around 42-47%
In Texas, we are at <27% – after some "experts" said that no one could get below 30%.
So – if we are comparing Gitmo to the U.S. prison system, they ain't doin' too bad. But Gitmo needs to have an enforced 0% recidivism rate. Use them for target practice & fish food.
Who would’ve guessed that executing the biggest shitbags instead of letting them out would have such an effect?
Can I have his stipend and house in Uruguay?
There’s a reason why these guys were locked up in GTMO. There’s a reason why we never gave them a trial. They are the lowest of the low and committed evil and terrible acts.
They want to go to the Middle East? Fine, send them all to Israel. I’m sure we won’t ever have a problem with them again.
“They want to go to the Middle East? Fine, send them all to Israel. I’m sure we won’t ever have a problem with them again.”
I’m sure there’s an Israeli medical School that needs a few cadavers.
Israel: Fine, we’ll deal with them. But we better not get any shit for it later!
Slipping in and out of a coma? Hmm. Sounds like Dhiab’s case will be resolved permanently – and from my perspective, favorably – quite soon.
He needs competent legal representation. Anyone know any lawyers in the Ft. Myers area that are not burdened with the day to day hassle of running a law firm?
In and out of a coma? Why do they bother waking him? He wants to die.
Let his ass die.
“We have to release them first to see what they’ll do.”
– Nancy Pelosi, (D – CA, 12th Dist.)
As I understand it, $500/month can buy a damn good living in Uruguay, and not just by local standards, especially on top of free room & board. “Hunger strike?” Fuck this guy.
Come on man! $500.00 won’t go as far in Uruguay as you think. Do you know how much C-4 costs on the black market?
/sarc
This shit bag is getting 6,000 bucks a year from the Govt there when the Average household income is less than 40% of that.
That like someone in the US getting about 120K a year.
Fuck him.
They are offering to move his wife and kids there as well.
Fresh start. He just wants to go back to being a goat fucking terrorist.
Honestly if they are this dangerous to the rest of the world and proven terrorists, why weren’t they just executed? Simple enough.
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