Pentagon: 61 ex-Guantanamo inmates return to terrorism

This is to be expected. No one but a self-deluded idiot could believe that releasing Guantanamo inmates would not see many of them return to terrorism. The official estimate is about 11 percent recidivism, but that seems low for a bunch of fanatical Muslims.

It was a huge mistake for the Bush administration to try to classify the terrorists captured while waging Jihad as "enemy combatants" rather than Prisoners of War under the Geneva Convention. While the GC prohibits some of the interrogation methods that were successfully employed, it does allow for the holding of captured combatants for the duration of the war. Considering that the Islamic Jihad against the Western world will go on for decades, being able to hold captured enemy indefinitely has a great value. That way there could be no calls for terrorist being given legal rights granted to law abiding citizens.

As it stands now, the ACLU and every Jihadi loving leftie have maneuvered the government into an impossible situation. There must be a long term (decades long) means to hold terrorists to keep them from making a mockery of Western laws and then going back to killing non-Muslims.

FROM YAHOO.COM:

Pentagon: 61 ex-Guantanamo inmates return to terrorism

By David Morgan David Morgan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pentagon said on Tuesday that 61 former detainees from its military prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, appear to have returned to terrorism since their release from custody.

Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said 18 former detainees are confirmed as "returning to the fight" and 43 are suspected of having done in a report issued late in December by the Defense Intelligence Agency.

Morrell declined to provide details such as the identity of the former detainees, why and where they were released or what actions they have taken since leaving U.S. custody.

"This is acts of terrorism. It could be Iraq, Afghanistan, it could be acts of terrorism around the world," he told reporters.
Morrell said the latest figures, current through December 24, showed an 11 percent recidivism rate, up from 7 percent in a March 2008 report that counted 37 former detainees as suspected or confirmed active militants.
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