{"id":28745,"date":"2012-02-14T17:47:44","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T21:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28745"},"modified":"2012-02-14T17:47:44","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T21:47:44","slug":"our-future-al-qaeda-chief-released-from-uk-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28745","title":{"rendered":"Our future; al Qaeda chief released from UK prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is what happens when you let the courts formulate national security policy (<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/radical-cleric-abu-qatada-being-freed-uk-jail-115926549.html\">Associated Press<\/a> link);<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Abu Qatada, a radical Muslim cleric whom British officials say is an al-Qaida figurehead and a threat to national security, was freed from an English prison into virtual house arrest late Monday, British media reported.<\/p>\n<p>Judicial officials acknowledged earlier in the day that the 51-year-old extremist preacher&#8217;s release from Long Lartin jail was imminent, but declined to comment on the reports from Sky News and the BBC, citing operational concerns.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently, the courts decided that Qatada was being imprisoned illegally. The Brits are trying to deport the supposed leader of al Qaeda in Europe to Jordan where he&#8217;s been found guilty of terrorism charges in absentia for his participation in two bomb plots there. The European Court of Human Rights is worried that evidence developed through torture will be used against him, so they&#8217;re blocking his deportation. <\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s what is in our future. The Iraq War has all but ended, the Afghan War is drawing down, so what do we do with the prisoners we&#8217;re holding at Guantanamo? With the wars over, we have no real legal standing to continue holding them, right? So do we let the best legal minds apply our laws against them? With the war out of the equation, they&#8217;ll be out on the streets in no time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is what happens when you let the courts formulate national security policy (Associated Press link); &hellip; <a title=\"Our future; al Qaeda chief released from UK prison\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28745\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Our future; al Qaeda chief released from UK prison<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}