Transfer or release?

COL Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 10:22:41 -0500

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2014/12/6_guantanamo_detaine.php

I think either way they will be back in the network after they have been vetted by the core group.

Can these types of people really be rehabilitated?

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The Defense Department announced on Dec. 7 that six Guantanamo detainees had been transferred to Uruguay. Four of the six are citizens of Syria, one is a Tunisian, and the sixth is from the Palestinian-controlled territories. In its final recommendations, issued in January 2010, President Obama's Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended that all six be transferred "to a country outside the United States that will implement appropriate security...

Response by CW5 Private RallyPoint Member made Dec 10 at 2014 10:29 AM

CW5 Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 10:29:59 -0500

Sir, I don't think they can be rehabilitated. At least not in the sense that we would think of it. They are returning to get back into the fight. In fact, they probably have more "cred" for spending all those years at GTMO, so their extremist stock will rise when they get back home (if they're not already there).

Response by LTC Private RallyPoint Member made Dec 10 at 2014 12:09 PM

LTC Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 12:09:24 -0500

Transfer; there is no way to determine the
Metrics for rehabilitation; so if possible giving them to either the US justice system or best case turning them over to a partner nation to adjudicate would be the best case scenarios for all. We are not going to be able to keep these detainees indefinitely and keeping an entity like GITMO for posterity is not something that politicians will be open too for the long term. We have to change the paradigm and have a plan for the future...