Gitmo detainee 'I do pose a threat'

Right from the horse's *ss as it were. When Muslim terrorists at Guantanamo openly and proudly state that they will continue terrorist attacks against the West, why do our elected officials ignore them? How do those on the left misunderstand that if given the chance, the terrorists they make excuses for would slit their throat in a instant if given the chance?

Where will you be when the Jihad hits the street?

FROM CAPECODONLINE.COM:

Gitmo detainee 'I do pose a threat'

By By Peter Finn and Julie Tate
(c) 2009, The Washington Post February 16, 2009

GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba — In a small room at Guantanamo Bay, plain white except for an American flag hung on the wall, Abdul al Rahman al Zahri sat shackled in front of three military officers at a hearing to determine whether he continued to pose a threat to the United States and its allies.
Zahri, a Yemeni captured in Afghanistan in 2001, was clear on that point.

“I do pose a threat to the United States and its allies,” he said, according to a transcript of the 2006 hearing. “I admit to you it’s my honor to be an enemy of the United States. I am a Muslim jihadist, and I’m defending my family and my honor.”
Zahri may have been unambiguous about his state of mind, but the question of whether he can be charged with any crime is murkier. Complicating matters for the administration is the fact that he has made sometimes flatly contradictory statements about his loyalties, at one point condemning bin Laden as a “heretic.”
Zahri said he heard the call to jihad outside a mosque in Yemen in early 2001, and he decided to go to Afghanistan as a trainee to eventually fight Russian forces in Chechnya, according to military documents. Within a week, he met bin Laden at an al-Qaida guesthouse, one of 10 meetings that military officials allege he had with terrorist leaders.

“The detainee stated he attended a meeting prior to 11 September 2001 in which an upcoming operation was discussed,” according to military documents.
Zahri went to the front lines in Afghanistan to fight the U.S.-backed Northern Alliance, where he was wounded, captured and eventually sent to Guantanamo. But despite his statements and some potential evidence — he was captured with a bag of various currencies and passports from several countries — some legal experts say it may be difficult for the United States to bring charges against him under the law as it stood in 2001.

“His statement that he is a jihadist and wants to stand against America — exactly what law does that violate?” asked Benjamin Wittes, a fellow at the Brookings Institution and author of “Law and the Long War.” “I cannot be confident that these facts — even if proven — would amount to a prosecutable case.”

Wittes and others have suggested that some system of detention may be needed for prisoners who cannot be prosecuted but are too dangerous to release. Human rights advocates, however, disagree.
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