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Militants found recruits among Guantanamo's wrongly detained
John McCain wants to continue with this stupidity
John McCain Has The Same Mindset As George W. Bush.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/259/v-print/story/38779.html
Excerpt: Use the link to read the entire report.
GARDEZ, Afghanistan — Mohammed Naim Farouq
was a thug in the lawless Zormat district of eastern Afghanistan. He
ran a kidnapping and extortion racket, and he controlled his turf with
a band of gunmen who rode around in trucks with AK-47 rifles.
U.S.
troops detained him in 2002, although he had no clear ties to the
Taliban or al Qaida. By the time Farouq was released from Guantanamo
the next year, however — after more than 12 months of what he described
as abuse and humiliation at the hands of American soldiers — he'd made
connections to high-level militants.
In fact, he'd become
a Taliban leader. When the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency released a
stack of 20 "most wanted" playing cards in 2006 identifying militants
in Afghanistan and Pakistan — with Osama bin Laden at the top — Farouq
was 16 cards into the deck.
A McClatchy investigation
found that instead of confining terrorists, Guantanamo often produced
more of them by rounding up common criminals, conscripts, low-level
foot soldiers and men with no allegiance to radical Islam — thus
inspiring a deep hatred of the United States in them — and then housing
them in cells next to radical Islamists.
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Working link:
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/259/v-print/story/38779.html
June 17, 2008 4:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Here is the post 9/11 stupidity that McCain wants to perpetuate:
Militants found recruits among Guantanamo's wrongly detained
JOHN McCAIN HAS A GEORGE W. BUSH MINDSET
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/world/v-print/story/38779.html
Excerpt: use link to read the full report.
U.S. troops detained him in 2002, although he had no clear ties to the Taliban or al Qaida. By the time Farouq was released from Guantanamo the next year, however — after more than 12 months of what he described as abuse and humiliation at the hands of American soldiers — he'd made connections to high-level militants.
In fact, he'd become a Taliban leader. When the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency released a stack of 20 "most wanted" playing cards in 2006 identifying militants in Afghanistan and Pakistan — with Osama bin Laden at the top — Farouq was 16 cards into the deck.
A McClatchy investigation found that instead of confining terrorists, Guantanamo often produced more of them by rounding up common criminals, conscripts, low-level foot soldiers and men with no allegiance to radical Islam — thus inspiring a deep hatred of the United States in them — and then housing them in cells next to radical Islamists.
The radicals were quick to exploit the flaws in the U.S. detention system.
Soldiers, guards or interrogators at the U.S. bases at Bagram or Kandahar in Afghanistan had abused many of the detainees, and they arrived at Guantanamo enraged at America.
The Taliban and al Qaida leaders in the cells around them were ready to preach their firebrand interpretation of Islam and the need to wage jihad, Islamic holy war, against the West. Guantanamo became a school for jihad, complete with a council of elders who issued fatwas, binding religious instructions, to the other detainees.
June 17, 2008 5:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sorry about the double post.
June 17, 2008 5:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
If one were prone to theorizing in conspiracy one might wonder if the "harsh interrogation" of Guantanamo Bay captives is actually later day brainwashing techniques to create false-flag terrorists, a la Sirhan Sirhan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKULTRA#Conspiracy_theories
June 17, 2008 7:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
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