Osama bin Laden is more dangerous than the young men he suckers into dying for a cause with no purpose? No. He is a figure head, no different than Dr. Aimon Muhammad Rabaie al-Zawahiri. They are the sociopathic icons of a global terrorist network that was successful because Bush and Cheney allowed it to happen. No one will convince me differently. Diane Feinstein knew the attacks were on the way and Richard Cheney simply stated, "Hey look, Diane, we're busy here. We'll get to taking some action in about six months." The FBI and CIA told the Bush Executive Branch they had three months or less and literally Cheney called for a 'study' of the issue.
So. All in all, there were no really MORE dangerous men in Gitmo than Zacarias. What were the detainess going to do, overcome the USA military, escape into the USA, disappear and destroy more lives? I mean for real.
The USA has successfully arrested and tried terrorists, both international and domestic, for decades. These so called 'global terrorists' are actually more dangerous than any other criminal that we have held within our prisions before? Heck, no. Monsters are monsters, either the USA can contain them with the virtue of 'human rights' or not. But. We never sink so low as to allow our own dignity to be tarnished by them. Never.
Literally, what Bush and Cheney did by creating the 'spectacle' called 'Gitmo' was to encourage the Ameircan imagination that those men were "Super Terrorists." It added to the Culture of Fear that Rove propagated. Gitmo was a 'prop' in the prolonged propaganda of the Bush/Cheney administration. That is all it was and that is all it is today.
By Al Pessin Pentagon
21 January 2009
Image reviewed by US military, shows 'Camp Justice' sign near high-security courtroom in Guantanamo, Cuba, 08 Dec 2008U.S. military judges in Guantanamo acted quickly Wednesday morning to suspend two of the 21 terrorism trials now in progress, based on a request from the Obama administration. Judges in the other trials are expected to do the same.
One of the trials suspended Wednesday was the biggest of them all - the case against five men accused of involvement in the September 11th attacks on the United States in 2001. The moves came based on requests from military prosecutors, acting on orders from President Obama.
The military trials are suspended for 120 days, and Pentagon Spokesman Bryan Whitman says he expects the Defense Department will soon receive further instructions from the new president.
"The president has clearly made his intentions well known, running up to taking his oath of office yesterday in terms of what his intentions are," he said. "And he has taken the first steps with respect to his direction to the secretary of defense to order a pause to military commissions proceedings. I would expect that the department will get additional guidance and direction in the near future."
Whitman says that additional direction could come within days, and he expects it to involve "a broad, comprehensive review."...
