U.S. Has Detained 83,000 in War on Terror. Great headline, isn't it? I love reading the first four paragraphs of this article:
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/11/16/D8DTOTT00.html
The United States has detained more than 83,000 foreigners in the four years of the war on terror, enough to nearly fill the NFL's largest stadium. The administration defends the practice of holding detainees in prisons from Afghanistan to Guantanamo Bay as a critical tool to stop the insurgency in Iraq, maintain stability in Afghanistan and get known and suspected terrorists off the streets.
Roughly 14,500 detainees remain in U.S. custody, primarily in Iraq.
The number has steadily grown since the first CIA paramilitary officers touched down in Afghanistan in the fall of 2001, setting up more than 20 facilities including the "Salt Pit," an abandoned factory outside Kabul used for CIA detention and interrogation.
In Iraq, the number in military custody hit a peak on Nov. 1, according to military figures. Nearly 13,900 suspects were in U.S. custody there that day _ partly because U.S. offensives in western Iraq put pressure on insurgents before the October constitutional referendum and December parliamentary elections.
Good! Who says we are not winning the war on terror? The rest of this article loses me, because it talks about "complaints from Congress and human-rights groups about how the detainees -- often Arab and male -- are treated." Am I supposed to have sympathy for terrorists? I think they actually are treated too well, especially the ones at Gitmo. I've heard that soldiers at Gitmo are not allowed to walk down the corridors during the prisoners' prayer time, because the sound of their boots is distracting. Are you even that courteous to your neighbors? I'm fed up with hearing senators and "human-rights" groups claim that terrorists are treated so cruelly. Surely they are aware of the incidents in Jordan and in France these past weeks. Islamic terrorists are not only killing Westerners; they are also killing other Arabs who disagree with them, like they did in Jordan (and, in case you haven't been noticing, like they have been doing in Iraq). And what did France gain from appeasing terrorists? Absolutely nothing. The recent "rioting" in France suggests that terrorists view it as a weak country. The world needs to wake up and realize how barbaric our enemies are. The last thing we should do is give them aid and comfort.
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/11/16/D8DTOTT00.html
The United States has detained more than 83,000 foreigners in the four years of the war on terror, enough to nearly fill the NFL's largest stadium. The administration defends the practice of holding detainees in prisons from Afghanistan to Guantanamo Bay as a critical tool to stop the insurgency in Iraq, maintain stability in Afghanistan and get known and suspected terrorists off the streets.
Roughly 14,500 detainees remain in U.S. custody, primarily in Iraq.
The number has steadily grown since the first CIA paramilitary officers touched down in Afghanistan in the fall of 2001, setting up more than 20 facilities including the "Salt Pit," an abandoned factory outside Kabul used for CIA detention and interrogation.
In Iraq, the number in military custody hit a peak on Nov. 1, according to military figures. Nearly 13,900 suspects were in U.S. custody there that day _ partly because U.S. offensives in western Iraq put pressure on insurgents before the October constitutional referendum and December parliamentary elections.
Good! Who says we are not winning the war on terror? The rest of this article loses me, because it talks about "complaints from Congress and human-rights groups about how the detainees -- often Arab and male -- are treated." Am I supposed to have sympathy for terrorists? I think they actually are treated too well, especially the ones at Gitmo. I've heard that soldiers at Gitmo are not allowed to walk down the corridors during the prisoners' prayer time, because the sound of their boots is distracting. Are you even that courteous to your neighbors? I'm fed up with hearing senators and "human-rights" groups claim that terrorists are treated so cruelly. Surely they are aware of the incidents in Jordan and in France these past weeks. Islamic terrorists are not only killing Westerners; they are also killing other Arabs who disagree with them, like they did in Jordan (and, in case you haven't been noticing, like they have been doing in Iraq). And what did France gain from appeasing terrorists? Absolutely nothing. The recent "rioting" in France suggests that terrorists view it as a weak country. The world needs to wake up and realize how barbaric our enemies are. The last thing we should do is give them aid and comfort.
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