That’s certainly good news for two four-letter name organizations. The ACLU and ISIS.
As many as 20 to 30 former Guantanamo Bay detainees — some of whom were released within the last three years — are suspected by intelligence and Defense officials of having joined forces with the Islamic State and other militant groups inside Syria, Fox News has learned.
The development has cemented fears that the U.S. military would once again encounter militants taken off the battlefield.
The intelligence offers a mixed picture, and officials say the figures are not exact. But they are certain at least some of the released detainees are fighting with the Islamic State, or ISIS, on the ground inside Syria. Others are believed to be supporting Al Qaeda or the affiliated al-Nusra Front in Syria.
You mean they weren’t innocent little lambs snatched up by Bush’s cruel dragnet like the New York Times said they were?
But wait, I know. The official excuse will be that by capturing them, we radicalized them. If we had left them alone, they would have been moderately killing women in Afghanistan. Once we captured them and spoke harshly to them in between offering them Korans and Harry Potter novels, then we made them into extremists who just can’t stop killing.
Senior Defense and intelligence officials say the vast majority of detainees released from Guantanamo don’t return to the fight — and of those who do, relatively few have made it to Syria.
Of the 620 detainees released from Guantanamo Bay, 180 have returned or are suspected to have returned to the battlefield.
Those are the ones we know of. And I’m not sure that 1/3 of released terrorists going back to being terrorists is some kind of success story to brag about. That’s like releasing 100 serial killers and patting yourself on the back because only 30 of them are killing people again.





















