Aw, Those Poor Widdle Jihadists We Should Just Set Them All Free...To Kill Our Citizens

You know, I really do feel sorry for these guys, but that's the way the cookie crumbles. Run around with the jackals, you gonna get bit sooner or later. I'm virtually certain some of these so-called lost prisoners are innocent, but the fact is, we have had enough released prisoners from Gitmo return to attack our troops that I believe this is a permissable "excess" (if it is an excess).

Some at Guantanamo Mark 5 Years in Limbo
Big Questions About Low-Profile Inmates

By Carol D. Leonnig and Julie Tate
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, January 16, 2007; Page A01

Shackled at the wrists and blinded by special goggles, the first captives from the U.S. war in Afghanistan were ushered to makeshift prison cells thousands of miles from the battle, at the U.S. naval station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, five years ago last week.

Gholam Ruhani was among them, the prison's third official inmate, flown in by cargo plane with the first group of 20 men. The 23-year-old Afghan shopkeeper, who spoke a little English, was seized near his hometown of Ghazni when he agreed to translate for a Taliban government official seeking a meeting with a U.S. soldier.

Ruhani is still at Guantanamo, marking the fifth anniversary of the prison and his own captivity. He remains as stunned about his fate, according to transcripts of his conversations with military officers, as he was when U.S. military police led him inside the razor wire on Jan. 11, 2002, and accused him of being America's enemy.

"I never had a war against the United States, and I am surprised I'm here," Ruhani told his captors during his first chance to hear the military's reasons for holding him, three years after he arrived at Guantanamo. "I tried to cooperate with Americans. I am no enemy of yours."

Well Ruhani, that may be true, or it may not be true. How are we to know? Your culture has raised duplicity to an art form. I am not concerned with the niceties here, you were swept up because you were associating with the Taliban. We have no way of knowing whether your story is fact or fiction. It would be stupid for America to release you simply because you claim to be innocent.

Sorry fellow, when the war is ended, and the threat from terrorism is reduced to nil, I believe you should remain precisely where you are. Of course there's no telling what Madame Bela Pelosi might do. She might release you, she is that dumb.

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