In this photo reviewed by the U.S. Military, a guard leans on a fencepost as a Guantanamo detainee (L) jogs inside the exercise yard at Camp 5 detention center, at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, January 21, 2009.REUTERS/BRENNAN LINSLEY/POOL
SOCOM chief: US lacks plan for long-term detention of Islamic State fighters
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon does not have a plan for long-term detention of captured Islamic State fighters, despite more aggressive operations against the terrorist group in Iraq, Syria and now Libya, the top U.S. special forces commander told Congress on Tuesday.
Before President Barack Obama took office, militants captured in Iraq and Afghanistan were sent to the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. But since Obama signed an executive order in 2009 to begin the process to close the facility, no new prisoners have been sent there.
At a hearing at the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday, Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., pressed Gen. Joseph Votel, commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, about what the United States plans to do if longer-term detention is necessary.
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WNU Editor: The White House is not comfortable with this idea .... they are more focused on closing detention facilities, not expanding them .... and in this environment they are certainly not going to make a decision on how to detain captured Islamic State fighters. My prediction .... this issue is going to be dumped on the next administration.
2 comments:
Why even detain them? Get the information they want out of them and kill them. If detainees being released from Guantanamo are any indicator, they hold onto their jihadist mindset and extremist beliefs and return to their former terror roles. The solution could not be easier.
Extract information. Execute.
I would say they signed their rights to live away when they decided inflicting terror on innocents was what they valued most.
Obama with a plan?
Other than socializing America?
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