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Government considers freeing another Guantanamo inmate,

iwannabeacowboy

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on heels of Bergdahl swap....

ARLINGTON, Va. – As controversy grows over the release of five hardened Taliban detainees in exchange for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the Obama administration is considering springing yet another prisoner from Guantanamo Bay.

Fouzi Khalid Abdullah al-Awda appeared via a video feed before a review board Wednesday morning in northern Virginia, often smiling as his private counsel Eric Lewis made the case for his release.

Al-Awda has been held prisoner for 12 years. According to Defense Department officials and his official Guantanamo detainee profile, he traveled from his home in Kuwait to Afghanistan just before the 9/11 attacks to train in terrorist camps, and "possibly" fight alongside the Taliban and Al Qaeda.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/06/04/government-considers-freeing-another-guantanamo-inmate-on-heels-bergdahl-swap/


This should make you all giddy inside LB
 
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Anonymous

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As has been brought up before - but is coming to light again now- what will we do with these Guantanamo inmates once we have removed troops from Afghanistan and declared the Afghan war over :???:

Can we hold those that we can't charge in criminal court forever :???:
Under most international and military law- POW's are to be released after the end of the war... Even those Nazi's and Japs we couldn't prove war crimes against in court were released and returned to their countries....

Or do we set international precedent and say that we are the U.S- and we can do what we want to do- and hold them in Guantanamo for the rest of their lives :???:
 

hypocritexposer

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They are not POWs. Carney/obama consider them enemy combatants.

POWs are captured military personnel that fight for a recognized Country.


This is not a POW exchange like past wars. Terrorists are not and have never been considered prisoners of war, not even under the Geneva Convention. Article Five. They’re illegal enemy combatants or if you prefer unlawful enemy combatants.

You’ve got Carney saying this. You’ve got Hagel saying this. This is the party line. I’m waiting on them to pull out some video from some guy in California.

We don’t exchange soldiers for terrorists! And these five terrorists are to be held until the end of hostilities. Hostilities haven’t ended.

These terrorists are going to go back to the battlefield and they’re going to take up arms and they’re going to kill more Americans and innocent Afghans.

Under no circumstances are they to be released to kill more Americans. Period. Let alone in an exchange for a putative deserter.

And then they say the US military doesn’t leave anyone anywhere, that we don’t do that. Well, of course it’s been done. But more to the point, if he’s a deserter, it’s not us leaving him. It’s him leaving us.

And no soldier’s life should be sacrificed looking for a deserter. No terrorist should be released to do more damage, maiming and murdering.

Mark Levin: The Bergdahl exchange was NOT a POW exchange

http://therightscoop.com/mark-levin-the-bergdahl-exchange-was-not-a-pow-exchange/


Oldtimer said:
Even those Nazi's and Japs we couldn't prove war crimes against in court were released and returned to their countries....


That's because the governments of those defeated Countries took responsibility for their actions, and any future actions, by said POWs.

Who is going to be responsible for future actions of released enemy combatants?
 

Steve

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The War in Afghanistan (2001–present) refers to the intervention by North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) and allied forces in the ongoing Afghan civil war.

On 14 September 2001 Congress passed legislation titled Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists, which was signed on 18 September 2001 by President Bush. It authorized the use of U.S. Armed Forces against those responsible for the 9/11 attacks. The Bush administration, for its part, did not seek a declaration of war.

On 20 December 2001, more than two months after the attack began, the UNSC authorized the creation of International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) to assist the Afghan Interim Authority in maintaining security.[114] Command of ISAF passed to NATO on 11 August 2003,

the war is against terrorism.. and while obama may claim to be ending it.. the "enemy" may not be listening to him...





to understand the scope of the operation..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_War_on_Terrorism_Expeditionary_Medal
 

hypocritexposer

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On 20 December 2001, more than two months after the attack began, the UNSC authorized the creation of International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) to assist the Afghan Interim Authority in maintaining security.[114] Command of ISAF passed to NATO on 11 August 2003,

Sounds more like a NATO police action...not "Bush playing in the sand" :wink:
 
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