September 30, 2004

Ex-Gitmo Detainee Vows to Fight Russia

A Danish man who was released from U.S. military detention in Guantanamo Bay told a television interviewer he plans to travel to Chechnya and join Islamic "militants" fighting Russian forces.
[Sneer quotes mine. But then, this is the Ass. Press; they won't call a spade a spade or a militant a terrorist.--Jen]
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As a condition of his release from Guantanamo in February, Abderrahmane pledged to refrain from warfare. Of the pledge, he said, "They can use it as toilet paper over there in the United States."

Abderrahmane was not charged upon his return to Denmark. He was widely criticized earlier this week when he told Danish media that Denmark's prime minister and the nation's troops in Iraq were legitimate targets for terrorists.
[Haven't the Democrats and John Kerry told this guy that Iraq isn't connected to the War on Terror?]

Although lawmakers criticized the remarks as out of bounds and said they amounted to incitement to violence, they did not violate any Danish laws.
[He only threatened to kill the head of the Danish government, but in Eurabia, that's apparently not a problem.--J.T.]

"I am going to Chechnya and fight for the Muslims," the 31-year-old Dane said during an interview on the daily news show, Nyhedsmagasinet. "The Muslims are oppressed in Chechnya and the Russians are carrying out terror against them."

First of all, this reminds me of that news report we heard only last week, when another ex-Gitmo detainee was killed in combat with Afghan forces, after he'd returned to his homeland and his old ways of being a Taliban warlord (the original reason he was detained in the first place!):

[...]
After Ghaffar's release more than a year ago, he was appointed the Taliban's regional commander in Uruzgan and Helmand provinces, said Jan Mohammad Khan, the governor of Uruzgan province. The governor said Ghaffar had carried out attacks against U.S. Special Forces soldiers and an attack on a district chief in Helmand. Three Afghan soldiers were killed in that attack.

The governor said that on Friday, officials learned that Ghaffar planned to attack the police in Chachani district, and instead the Afghan forces killed him and two of his men.

Officials in Afghanistan and the United States have indicated in the past that at least five Afghan detainees released from Guantanamo had returned to Afghanistan and again become Taliban commanders or fighters.

While bleeding-heart Liberal groups like the ACLU like to think of Gitmo prisoners' releases as "victories" over the long and grasping arm of American Justice, it's quite clear that the inmates of Camp X-Ray are there because they're killers and decided bad guys.
The second salient fact to be gleaned from this story is that the War on Terror is global, that's it's being waged by radicalized and militarized IslamoFascists from all over the world and that Chechnya and Iraq are considered by them to be their current battlegrounds, whether John Kerry and Ted Kennedy deny it or not.
How long will soft-headed Americans continue to buy the Democrats' lies that Iraq isn't part of the WOT?
And how many Beslans do there have to be in Russia before Putin stops making military and commercial alliances with Iran, Saudi Arabia, and other state sponsors of terrorism?