House of Eratosthenes

This reads like the plot of one of those over-the-top David Zucker attack ads against the left — except it wasn’t the left that presided over this one. The next interview with Dick or Liz Cheney should be pretty interesting, huh?

Two of the four leaders allegedly behind the al Qaeda plot to blow up a Northwest Airlines passenger jet over Detroit were released by the U.S. from the Guantanamo prison in November, 2007, according to American officials and Department of Defense documents. Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for the Northwest bombing in a Monday statement that vowed more attacks on Americans.

American officials agreed to send the two terrorists from Guantanamo to Saudi Arabia where they entered into an “art therapy rehabilitation program” and were set free, according to U.S. and Saudi officials.

Guantanamo prisoner #333, Muhamad Attik al-Harbi, and prisoner #372, Said Ali Shari, were sent to Saudi Arabia on Nov. 9, 2007, according to the Defense Department log of detainees who were released from American custody. Al-Harbi has since changed his name to Muhamad al-Awfi…

“The so-called rehabilitation programs are a joke,” a U.S. diplomat said in describing the Saudi efforts with released Guantanamo detainees.

Saudi officials concede its program has had its “failures” but insist that, overall, the effort has helped return potential terrorists to a meaningful life.

One program gives the former detainees paints and crayons as part of the rehabilitation regimen.

From “Allahu Akbar” to “Crayola Akbar.” On the bright side, at least The One has learned from Bush’s terrible folly here, right? Wrong. Bob Gates has been pushing since May to transfer 97 Yemeni detainees to the Saudi rehab program; as of 10 days ago the plan was to send six Yemenis back to Yemen itself with possibly scores more to follow.

Mmmmm, doesn’t look too promising.

So if Palin chooses not to run, is there a Klingon Warlord somewhere in the line-up? We’ve tried government by compassion now…#42, #43 and now #44 have all made it their trademark.

There’s no protection for this “homeland” in that, and at this point some guy walking around wearing a necklace made from the fingers or genitalia of his enemies would look like a vast improvement. We have a Constitution to keep him from becoming the next Genghis Kahn, we don’t need some phony-baloney veneer of “swell guy” decency for that purpose. It doesn’t work, it makes fools out of all of us. Kersey/Beowulf 2012.

Whoever runs, the logo needs to be an artist’s easel and palette with a red line through ’em.

Heh. Nice use of a Death Wish reference there. Unless you’re referring to former NBA player Jerome Kersey, of course, in which case I don’t understand it at all.
- Physics Geek | 12/29/2009 @ 11:37
Saudi officials concede its program has had its “failures” but insist that, overall, the effort has helped return potential terrorists to a meaningful life.

Uh… correct me if I’m wrong, but don’t these idiots think that nothing makes their lives more meaningful than taking out infidels while taking their own bad selves out?

Idiots.

I’m sorry, lib-tards. Bush had this bit right, which is why we voted for him the second time around. I’m sorry he thought he had to give in to you freaks and start acting like you, releasing these people back to the wild to fight again at your frothy-mouthed insistence.

Can we fight the buggers now? Please?
- philmon | 12/29/2009 @ 20:25
I’m sorry, lib-tards. Bush had this bit right, which is why we voted for him the second time around. I’m sorry he thought he had to give in to you freaks and start acting like you, releasing these people back to the wild to fight again at your frothy-mouthed insistence.

Amen. I’ve always had trouble understanding why the detainees weren’t simply taken to the firing squad and summarily executed when all actionable intelligence had been extracted.

What’s that, you say? If we kill the POW’s we take, the enemy will kill ours as well? News flash….THEY’RE FREAKING DOING THAT NOW! And not even in a quick-death kind of way, but generally by the most painful and excruciating means imaginable. And that comes on top of the fact that this particular enemy doesn’t come from a state which is a signatory to the Geneva Conventions, or for that matter, any recognized state at all. The Taliban were recognized by only three countries – Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and I forget the third – Libya or something – but it definitely wasn’t the USA or any other member of NATO. Always thought Geneva was kind of useless anyway; really, how likely were we to go to war with any of the other signatories?
- cylarz | 12/31/2009 @ 02:25

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