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Originally Posted by Russ D
The Bush administration's detention of hundreds of foreign fighters in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, got dissected last week by the Supreme Court, with some justices questioning the government's right to incarcerate aliens indefinitely without judicial review. But the court arguments may have obscured a potentially bigger embarrassment for the Pentagon: some of the more than 100 Gitmo prisoners who have been released have since turned up back in Afghanistanââ ¡Ã‚¬Ã¢â‚¬ÂÂfightin g with Taliban forces against the U.S. military.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld alluded to the problem last month, telling reporters there had been "a mistake in one case" and that a detainee let go last year "has gone back to being a terrorist." But administration officials tell NEWSWEEK that military intelligence has identified at least three additional "revolving door" cases of Gitmo detainees' returning to the battlefield. One released prisoner, Mullah Shehzada, is serving as a "senior" Taliban commander. The officials say that alarming developmentââ ¡Ã‚¬Ã¢â‚¬ÂÂas well as information developed about four released detainees sent back to Britainââ‚à ‚¬Ã¢â‚¬ÂÂshows that the Gitmo population is far more dangerous than most of the public understands. Administration officials are especially aghast over the released British prisoners, who U.S. intelligence says are hardened Islamic extremists trained in urban warfare and assassination techniques at Qaeda camps before 9/11; one of them met several times with Osama bin Laden. "Rumsfeld has really been flagging this one hard in interagency meetingsââ‚ ‚¬Ã¢â‚¬ÂÂthat we need to be careful about who gets released," says one senior administration official.
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I thought it was a possibility - Due to the lack of oppotunities waiting for former detainees when they arrived home, the political climate in the areas of Afghanistan where the live, and the hatred they feel for the US, but it would be suprising if it is that much. Not least because they they know if they get caught once more, they aren't ever getting out.
Doesn't your post qualify for it's own thread though?