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WASHINGTON — An unreleased Pentagon report concludes that about one in seven of the 534 prisoners already transferred abroad from the detention center in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, has returned to terrorism or militant activity, according to administration officials.

The conclusion could strengthen the arguments of critics who have warned against the transfer or release of any more detainees as part of President Obama’s plan to shut down the prison by January. Past Pentagon reports on Guantánamo recidivism have been met with skepticism from civil liberties groups and criticized for their lack of detail.

The New York Times needs to finish their sentence above:

"The conclusion could strengthen the arguments of critics who have warned against the transfer or release of any more detainees as part of President Obama's plan to shut down the prison by January....unless we can distort, delude, and otherwise shape the factual reference that 74 detainees returned to killing innocents because we wanted to stick it to George W. Bush."

There...that's better.

“It’s part of a campaign to win the hearts and minds of history for Guantánamo,” said Mark P. Denbeaux, a professor at Seton Hall University School of Law who has represented Guantánamo detainees and co-written three studies highly critical of the Pentagon’s previous recidivism reports. “They want to be able to claim there really were bad people there.”

Mr. Denbeaux acknowledged that some of the named detainees had engaged in verifiable terrorist acts since their release, but he said his research showed that their numbers were small.

“We’ve never said there weren’t some people who would return to the fight,” Mr. Denbeaux said. “It seems to be unavoidable. Nothing is perfect.”

If you go to Seton Hall and you have this guy for a class...do this:

1. Ask for 74 extra credit points on all tests and quizzes. As the good professor points out, it is a very small number and shouldn't make a difference.

2. When you receive a red mark for making an error on a test, request that it be removed because...after all...nothing is perfect.

3. Write at least three highly critical studies on Professor Denbeaux and submit them to the Dean of Academic Affairs.

Cheers,
The Worm

Define "charity"...

An orphanage run by a British charity in Bangladesh has been raided by local security forces who say that it was being used as a training camp and arms factory for Islamic militants.

The Rapid Action Battalion said today that it had arrested four people, including a teacher and three caretakers, and was searching for the head of the charity, a British citizen known only as Faisal.

The arrests came after a raid yesterday on the Green Crescent madrassa and orphanage on the remote southern island of Bhola, Lt Col Munir Haque, an officer involved in the operation, told The Times.

Semantics...terrorists have been manufacturing orphans for years.

Muslim Terrorists, Enablers, and Apologists

The Muslim News:

Muslims like other communities want equal and fair treatment rather than treatment which is discriminatory or highly prejudicial. A recent arrest of fire bombers of a publisher under terror laws is another case in point. They were held under anti terror laws for almost a week and then charged under normal armed offences, which they could have used at the time of arrest. But because they were Muslims, anti terror laws were misused to collect information. What was also disturbing about this incidence was that the police allowed the perpetrators to carry out the bombing (they were under police surveillance). Luckily no one was injured. The police told The Muslim News the reason they were allowed to carry out the bombing was that they could be caught “red-handed”.

UNFAIR!!! UNFAIR!!! They allowed them to carry out the bombing because they could, then, be caught "red-handed."

I don't buy that. But, it's plausible...because anything short of surveillance monitored proof of the crime would have resulted in these same mouth-breathing cretins at the Muslim News claiming that the three morons holding the bottle of petrol were looking for their lost moped.

Not a word from the Muslim News as to why the Gibson Square publishing company was fire bombed.

Apparently, towards the end of September, there were a bunch of gelatinous-brained Muslims who didn’t like the fact that Gibson Square published a fiction novel (Jewel of Medina) by US author and journalist, Sherry Jones that gives a fictionalized account of the Prophet Muhammad’s relationship with a child bride named Aisha. In their minds, that was sufficient cause to burn down the publishing house, which doubled as a residence.

Three Muslims were arrested for the act.

Random House had, actually, been scheduled to publish the book, but cancelled under public outrage by the same caliber of sphincters who firebombed Gibson, and write for Muslim News. Ironically, the whole ‘up in arms’ attitude against the book was likely propagated by the possible hysterics of Denise Spellberg, a professor of Middle Eastern studies at the University of Texas. She seems to be a real piece of excrement in her own right.

It was a freakin' book of fiction for Pete's sake. GET A GRIP YOU OVER-SENSITIVE, THIN SKINNED, WHINING TROGLODYTES!!!! And, yes, Muhammad was indeed a pedophile by the standards of a civilized world. So says the quran (lower case q on purpose).

The silver lining in it all, of course, is the owner of Gibson Publishing, Martin Rynja. The man believes in free speech and has chosen not to be deterred by ‘book burning’ half-wit assholes like those launching fire bombs, ignorance of those Muslims filling their compatriots with over-propagandized tripe like the Muslim News, or self-proclaimed pseudo-scholars without the least bit of common sense or decency like Denise Spellman. He’s going full speed ahead.

Gibson Publishing has previously published Londonistan by Melanie Phillips and Blowing Up Russia by the late Alexander Litvinenko. You'll find the link to Melanie Phillips' fine blog in the 'Worm List' on the left side of the page.