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U.S. judge orders release of 5 terror suspects at Gitmo

World Nov. 21, 2008 - 05:56AM JST ( 8 )

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elbudamexicanoNov. 21, 2008 - 11:21AM JST

This liberal idiot U.S. judge is an idiot! These Algerians where aprehended because they where on their way to join AL QAEDA in Afganistan but this is not enough to keep them locked up for ever? Or to be put out of their miseries? (death penalty) these guys have been simmering under that had Cuban sun just thinking of how to get revenge against the bloody infidel Americans and now this stupid judge will let them go free? So they can come back and kill as many Americans as possible? Round them all up in Gitmo and shoot them now. These terrorists do not deserve their day in any American court of law, we are at war and when the Al Qaeda etc..strike again, we will see how many were from those released from Gitmo. I hope Obama is not so stupid as to think that by closing Gitmo, the Muslim world will think any better of the US, the west etc..just exterminate them as they would be in their own countries if they were arrested in Saudi, Egypt etc...
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mcheekyNov. 21, 2008 - 04:40PM JST

In the first case of its kind, U.S. District Judge Richard J Leon said the government’s evidence linking the five Algerians to al-Qaida was not credible as it came from a single, unidentified source.

Completely embarrassing to America that people would be locked up without even the most basic of prisoner rights just because "some guy" whose name we don't know pointed a finger at them.

Do we have suspected witches at Gitmo too? Can't wait for Obama to close the place along with this shameful chapter of our history.
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1eyedjackNov. 21, 2008 - 05:06PM JST

"a major blow to the Bush administration’s strategy to capture and hold terror suspects without charges."

Idiotic "opinion" of the year ? Seems to me that Bush has done exactly what he was elected to do... keep Americans safe ! It's now up to Obama to carry the torch and protect the US... good luck ! or as you can see, the combatants are slowly being released back into the theatre !
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mcheekyNov. 21, 2008 - 05:25PM JST

Seems to me that Bush has done exactly what he was elected to do... keep Americans safe !

Like he was doing in that school room on Sept. 11, 2001? Or when ordering the invasion on the country that was not a threat, thereby ending the lives of over 4,000 American soldiers?

Gitmo itself has probably sparked more outrage and induced more people to fight us than it ever imprisoned! Even I turned on the U.S. government in my own way!

Within maybe a day of 9/11 I concluded the attack was a one-off fluke, and felt plenty secure, knowing that people were more aware, and that citizen awareness could have stopped 9/11. I felt less secure when Gitmo, the Patriot act, torture, denial of rights, and the invasion of Iraq for no good reason hit the news.

My view is vindicated by the fact that people are still shooting at our boys and our embassies have been attacked too. All you have is no attacks on American soil, which I was not very worried about after 9/11 anyway. Bush had seven years, hundreds of trillions of dollars and widespread support from his country and most of the world. Yet al-Quaeda is still out there and bin Laden's whereabouts unknown. With successes like that, who needs failures?! Gitmo is part and parcel of that.
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smithinjapanNov. 21, 2008 - 06:02PM JST

"Seems to me that Bush has done exactly what he was elected to do... keep Americans safe !"

I usually don't answer fools who come on here simply to troll and use only sarcasm as a tool, but what the heck.

You do mean the same bush that caused the terrorist attacks of 9/11, right? Or wait... did they happen on another president's dime? (sarge loves to avoid answering this). Or... or-or-or do you mean the same terrori--I mean president who locked up these guys with no shred of evidence and likely TURNED them into terrorists who want to get the US for the time they spent in prison?
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RomeoRamenIINov. 21, 2008 - 06:42PM JST

Judge Leon should have also ordered the five Islamoterrorists he released to move into his house. Then they could all sit around the judge's dining room table, hold hands and sing "Kum bah ya".
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adaydreamNov. 22, 2008 - 05:54AM JST

the six men were caught and detained before they could an international terrorist fight against the United States and its allies.

I can't believe this outlandish charge. You could arrest anybody on the face of the earth and accuse them of this. I love this, thery were accused by one unidenified person who made this allegation. I could say that smithinjapan was a terrorist and based on the government, he would be a prisoner for life.

I'm glad the judge is smarter than the government. < :-)
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MadvertsNov. 23, 2008 - 12:14AM JST

No ramen, the "evidence linking the five Algerians to al-Qaida was not credible as it came from a single, unidentified source".

I wonder why y'all are whinging about oppressive dictators elsewhere, when most of the fundie American right support the exact kind of behaviour when their lame-duck leader is ordereing it.