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ABC News pitched it Tuesday as the ultimate feel-good story: “I was born again on July 19. My birthday is no longer March 4. I was born yesterday on July 19,” said Abdul Latif Nasser, a Guantanamo detainee who was freed yesterday by Biden’s handlers. Nasser was ecstatic: “I have no words to describe my overwhelming sense of happiness and joy. It is like a miracle after 20 years to be home and celebrate Eid together with my family.” However, the circumstances of his long detention were less heartwarming and should be pondered carefully by patriotic foreign policy analysts in Washington – if, that is, there are any such people.
According to ABC News in 2019, Nasser was “first cleared for release from Guantanamo more than five years ago. He had been detained there for 19 years after he was captured in Afghanistan, alleged by the U.S. government to be an active member of the Taliban and then to have trained with al-Qaeda.”
Despite that allegation, however, “during his time at Guantanamo, he was never charged with a crime, and his lawyers stress that none of the U.S. government’s claims have been aired in a court of law.” That’s right: Abdul Latif Nasser spent nineteen years in the Guantanamo prison camp without charge. It doesn’t matter what he did; this was a tremendous injustice, but it was more than that as well. The long imprisonment without charge of Abdul Latif Nasser was born of the confusion about what exactly we were facing after 9/11 in the first place.
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gravenimage says
Freeing of Guantanamo Detainee Highlights the Confusion and Failure of the ‘War on Terror’
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Is Abdul Latif Nasser going to return to waging Jihad? Many of those released from Guantanamo have.
As of 2017, almost 20% of those released were confirmed to have returned to Jihad terror, and an additional over 14% suspected of same. Together that is over a third–and actual numbers may be higher.
mortimer says
As the detainees get older and older, they will lose the drive to conduct terrorist operations. It’s a job for foolish, inexperienced young men. People will know who they are and they will be watched by their families, neighbors and the police.
All jihadist detainees should have to speak with professional deprogrammers who are highly skilled in highlighting the reasons why one should not have confidence in foundational Islam. Once the Koran is seen as man-made, jihadists drop out of jihadism.
gravenimage says
Mortimer, your idea that the police in most Muslim countries–let alone the Jihadist’s own families–are on the lookout for Jihad terror against Infidels I’m afraid rather strains credulity.
Then, you have never said who these “professional deprogrammers” are, nor how many Jihadists they have actually successfully deprogrammed.
rubiconcrest says
Well, he can thank the US that he’s still alive. We did him a favor but I doubt he appreciates it.
mortimer says
The ‘war on terror’ doesn’t have a clearly defined enemy and it WHITEWASHES Islam as the source of the terror.
There should be a war on the JIHADIC DOCTRINE of warfare against disbelievers.
There should be a war on the JIHADIC IDEOLOGY. That would be effective.
gravenimage says
I’m afraid that “Jihadic ideology” is actually just orthodox Islam.