{"id":11358,"date":"2009-06-08T06:35:22","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T11:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=11358"},"modified":"2009-06-08T08:11:14","modified_gmt":"2009-06-08T13:11:14","slug":"im-not-a-terrorist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=11358","title":{"rendered":"“I’m not a terrorist!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning, ABC News<\/a> is running with a story of a former Guantanamo detainee who was held there for seven years by the name of Lakhdar Boumediene who claims he was innocent of any wrong-doing;<\/p>\n

In an exclusive interview with ABC News, Boumediene said the interrogators at Gitmo never once asked him about this alleged plot, which he denies any part it.<\/p>\n

“I’m a normal man,” says Boumediene, who at the time of his arrest worked for the Red Crescent, providing help to orphans and others in need. “I’m not a terrorist.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But, Jammie Wearing Fool<\/a> and Pirates Cove<\/a> write this morning that at least 74 detainees who were released from the island prison have returned to the business of terror;<\/p>\n

Such recidivism points up an alarming intelligence failure.<\/p>\n

These dangerous prisoners should never have been cleared for release. Why did interrogators fail to find the cracks in their stories and alibis?<\/p>\n

Why wasn’t more intelligence gathered to predict they’d rejoin al Qaeda or the Taliban?<\/p>\n

In a word, politics. Gitmo interrogations have been emasculated to placate critics of waterboarding and other “torture,” say two senior officials there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well, I’d blame journalists to a point, too. Articles like the one in ABC News seem to fill the news organizations’ reporting. Rather than telling us about the real terrorists that fill the cells in our resort hotel on the Cuban coast, they seem more interested in reporting on the clowns that claim they are innocent. After all, only an innocent man would proclaim his innocence, right?<\/p>\n

The prisoners in Guantanamo use our own judicial system against us, and we happily give them lawyers and rights (rights the detainees would deny anyone in their charge if roles were reversed) and access to a system that they don’t even believe in. And the media, more interested in the few mistakes of government, make it seem as if we only detain innocent people and release the criminals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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