Obama Does Away With "Enemy Combatant" Status

Oralloy wrote:

The groups that are related to the 9/11 attack are going to be exterminated, period.

By whom? Holy christian warriors and holy jewish warriors? Michael Ledeen and a few buddies? The Pentagon?

Your project will take how many decades? The civic approval for your project will arise how? Funding will come from where?

The number of countries which now harbor sympathizers are how many? The number of individuals are how many hundreds of thousands or more spread across those nations? You'll identify them how? You'll get to them for extermination how? Who'll do it? How will they do it?

The taliban in Afghanistan has been resurgent now for several years. How will your warrior heroes handle this matter? How about Pakistan?

For every man or woman (or boy or girl) you exterminate, there are how many family members for each who will consider your project and its perpetrators deserving themselves of extermination? How large a circle of these would you propose to exterminate as well? Through third cousins?

Obama Does Away With "Enemy Combatant" Status

PrezBO is planning on releasing all of the ECs currently held in GITMO.
Many of these ex-prisoners will walk our streets and benefit from tax
payer funded services very soon.

H2O MAN wrote:

PrezBO is planning on releasing all of the ECs currently held in GITMO.
Many of these ex-prisoners will walk our streets and benefit from tax
payer funded services very soon.

Nah. There are a number of radicals in Obama's base who want to free
them, but Obama is going to keep them locked up until the end of the war.

Twenty men detained at the remote US naval base at Guantanamo Bay in southern Cuba have been cleared of terrorism charges, including 17 Chinese Uighurs ordered released by a US court in June, seven years after their arrest. But the US says they may face persecution if returned to China

The Romans had an outstanding phrase: "Create a desert and call it peace."

C.I.A. to Close Secret Prisons for Terror Suspects
WASHINGTON " The Central Intelligence Agency announced on Thursday that it will no longer use contractors to conduct interrogations, and that it is decommissioning the secret overseas sites where for years it held high-level Al Qaeda prisoners.

In a statement to the agency’s work force, the director, Leon E. Panetta, said that the secret detention facilities were no longer in operation, but he suggested that security and maintenance have been continued at the sites at taxpayers’ expense.

“I have directed our agency personnel to take charge of the decommissioning process, and have further directed that the contracts for site security be promptly terminated,” Mr. Panetta said. “It is estimated that our taking over site security will result in savings of up to $4 million.”

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The Romans had an outstanding phrase: "Create a desert and call it peace."

It does stand out, doesn't it?
You've become a silly person.

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C.I.A. to Close Secret Prisons for Terror Suspects
WASHINGTON " The Central Intelligence Agency announced on Thursday that it will no longer use contractors to conduct interrogations, and that it is decommissioning the secret overseas sites where for years it held high-level Al Qaeda prisoners.

In a statement to the agency’s work force, the director, Leon E. Panetta, said that the secret detention facilities were no longer in operation, but he suggested that security and maintenance have been continued at the sites at taxpayers’ expense.

“I have directed our agency personnel to take charge of the decommissioning process, and have further directed that the contracts for site security be promptly terminated,” Mr. Panetta said. “It is estimated that our taking over site security will result in savings of up to $4 million.”

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If you read the entire article at the source it appears to be very good news for those concerned with the ethics of the country we are living in and love.

Some Gitmo inmates may be released in US

Instead of "enemy combatants" they will now be called "people who can be detained indefinitely without charges under the US's wartime powers".

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/guantanamo_detainees/print

in addition to the authority conferred upon him by the plain language of the AUMF, the President has the authority to detain persons who were part of, or substantially supported, the Taliban or al-Qaeda forces that are engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners, provided that the terms 'substantially supported' and 'part of' are interpreted to encompass only individuals who were members of the enemy organization’s armed forces, as that term is intended under the laws of war, at the time of their capture.

So has Obama figured out where he is going to keep captured enemy soldiers from now on?

Dump them in prison alongside ordinary criminals?

WASHINGTON -- As many as 100 detainees at the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, could end up held without trial on American soil, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates suggested Thursday,

At the hearing, Mr. Gates said he had asked for $50 million in supplemental financing in case a facility needed to be built quickly for the detainees.