{"id":16677,"date":"2010-01-13T12:46:02","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T17:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=16677"},"modified":"2010-01-13T14:31:58","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T19:31:58","slug":"its-all-hugs-and-kisses-until-someone-explodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=16677","title":{"rendered":"It’s all hugs and kisses until someone explodes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Power Point Ranger and Southern Democrat sent me an article from BBC of one of our readers, Brandon Neely, a former IVAW member who left the organization last year over the Carl Webb dustup. I wrote about Neely and his testimony<\/a> last year which was little more than hearsay from other guards at Guantanamo and some of his work as reaction force in the prison. Like some of the other guards at Gitmo who’ve come out against prisoner treatment, Neely admits that much of his information on terrorists came from his fraternization with them.<\/p>\n

Well, he took that fraternization a step further and apologized to two British prisoners for their mistreatment in front of BBC cameras<\/a>. I understand what might have motivated Brandon to make the trip and beclown himself in front of the international media, but I wonder what good anyone thought would come out of that.
\nRusty Weiss at Newsbusters<\/a> catalogues the real reasons that these two Gitmo prisoners, Ruhal Ahmed and Shafiq Rasul, are still in custody. Although they claimed that they were just looking for some good pot initially, they’ve admitted that they sought and found some weapons training from al-Qaeda.<\/p>\n

But because they could whip out some mean rap lyrics, Neely has decided they’re not terrorists. Since I know Brandon is a regular reader here, I’ll tell him that’s just naive. Being a member of the QRF in Gitmo doesn’t give you any special insight on terrorists. it doesn’t matter that they’re all 5’5″ tall and weigh about 120 pounds – how much exploding do they have to do right in front of your face to convince you that they’re dangerous?<\/p>\n

Gitmo guards gladhanding their former charges is good TV, but it’s just not good anti-terrorism policy. Six months on QRF doesn’t make you an expert, Brandon. It just makes for good propaganda. Yes the two pot heads forgave you, but they’d kill you and your family just as fast.<\/p>\n

Please grow up.<\/p>\n

Power Point Ranger and I agree that this photo looks like a screen shot from a beheading video;<\/p>\n

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By the way, Brandon, I’m a little upset that you didn’t let TAH in on this interview.<\/p>\n

Correction:<\/strong> Rusty Weiss from Newsbusters writes to tell us that Ruhal Ahmed and Shafiq Rasul are no longer in custody since 2004.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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