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Quote by: Milton Bradley  Didn't we determine most of that is alleged, because they were brought in by bounty hunters? |
Amazingly enough, I looked on the Department of Defense's website and couldn't find any of those numbers published in the BBC article relating to "bounty hunters"...hmmmm...
Even if these people were captured thanks to bounties put on al-qaida and the taliban forces, it doesn't change the fact that these ARE al-qaida and taliban forces. Your assumption that everyone that was turned in was taken prisoner and shipped to Gitmo, regardeless of their al-qaida/taliban connection(or lack there of) is completely false.
In Afghanistan alone, there were something on the order of 10,000+ prisoners taken, sorted, and then for the most part, released - except for the ones deemed to be the highest threat/value(you know, those guys down there that I listed).
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During the military conflict in Afghanistan, approximately 10,000 enemy fighters were captured, screened or released. Some were Taliban soldiers and some were Al-Qaida fighters. Most were released in Afghanistan after they had been disarmed, and we determined they no longer posed a serious threat of returning to the fight. But more than 700 of these men were so dangerous that they could not be safely detained in Afghanistan. These individuals included terrorist trainers, bomb makers, recruiters and facilitators, terrorist financiers, bodyguards for Usama Bin Laden, and potential suicide bombers. These fighters were detained as enemy combatants at the U.S. military base at Guantanamo, Cuba.
CDA Blakeman: The truth about Guantanamo |
To answer your question directly, no.