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Cong Duncan Hunter, Maj-USMCR: Obama Gitmo Policy May Be Forcing US Military to Release Newly Captured Terrorists on the Battlefield
By Capt Joseph R. John, on March 7, 2016
An endorsed Combat Veteran For Congress, Congressman Duncan D. Hunter, Maj-USMCR (R-CA-52) in the below article is opposing the transfer of the most dangerous Al Q’ieda Terrorists incarcerated at the US Naval Detention Facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (GITMO) to foreign countries and to US prisons on United States soil. There is a much more sinister reason why the occupant in the Oval Office has been transferring hundreds of Radical Islamic Terrorists from the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility, for the last 7 years; Obama has been ignoring the fact 30% of released terrorists from the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility have resumed terrorist activities and/or have returned to the battlefield to kill US Military personnel. Even though the Al Q’ieda and Taliban Terrorists that Obama has been releasing from GITMO are killing and maiming more American military personnel on the battlefield, Obama has been ignoring those facts, because his ultimate goal is to transfer the US Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay to Castro’s Communist Cuba, regardless of what is required.
Obama promised to shut down US Naval Detention Facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba when he took office, and for 7 years he has blocked captured terrorist suspects from being sent to the US Naval Detention Facility in Cuba. This, coupled with the US Armed Forces closure of the US Military Detention Facility near the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan at the end of 2014, raises questions about the US Armed Forces’ ability to detain suspected Taliban Terrorists captured on the battlefield, under the Authorization for Use of Military Force. Congressman Hunter inquired of Secretary of Defense Carter how captured Taliban Terrorist are being ultimately dealt with. Under Obama administration policies, those Taliban Terrorist captured on the battle field (in Afghanistan) are now being transferred to foreign custody. (Washington Free Beacon, 2/22/16)
Congressman Hunter wrote to Secretary of Defense Carter on January 28, and stated in his correspondence: “Given the clear position of Congress on the proposed closure of Guantanamo Bay and the prohibition on detainee transfers to domestic facilities, I am concerned that the Department of Defense is being forced to relinquish control of dangerous individuals captured by U.S. Forces (in Afghanistan) due to the president’s refusal to utilize Guantanamo Bay for new detention cases.”
Congressman Hunter went on to state in his correspondence, “Once in foreign custody, an individual’s release can occur despite the best efforts of the U.S. to keep that individual in custody,” Congressman Hunter continued. “An already high-rate of recidivism adds to the probability that some individuals will subsequently reengage U.S. forces on the battlefield or resume terrorist activity. This puts American lives at risk.” Joe Kasper, Congressman Hunter’s Chief of Staff, told the Free Beacon that Obama’s detainee policy can only lead the American public to assume that “many of the people our operators pick up (in Afghanistan) are turned over and released, in some cases immediately.”
Two years after Iran’s terrorist front group, Hezbollah, established a terrorist training camp in Castro’s Communist Cuba, and had been regularly exporting Radical Islamic Terrorism to South America and to the United States, Obama told another of his many lies. He certified to Congress, as required by US Federal Law, that he could remove Cuba from the US list of nations that sponsor terrorism, when he knew full well that Communist Cuba was allowing Hezbollah to train terrorists on Cuban soil, and had been exporting terrorism throughout the Western Hemisphere. Obama then followed the first big lie with another bigger lie, when he told the American people he could safely establish diplomatic relations with Communist Cuba, something 10 US Presidents refused to do for 55 years, because Castro’s Communist Cuba never ceased exporting terrorism and Communism throughout North and South America.
Communist Cuba continues to work very closely with Hezbollah, Iran, and Radical Islamic Terrorists to destabilize the United States. Yet, Obama just established round trip airline traffic between the US and Cuba, making it very easy for Muslim Refugees sympathetic to ISIS to fly to Cuba, complete their terrorist training in Hezbollah Terrorist Training Camps, then return to the United States to attack Americans. The FBI informed Congress that 250+ newly admitted Muslim Refugees who were admitted as US Citizens thru Obama’s fast track refugee citizenship program, have flown to the Middle East and Africa to train with ISIS and participate in the genocide of Syrian and Assyrian Christians.
Obama has been trying to get Congress to approve the transfer the highest risk Al Q’ieda Terrorists killers to US prisons, that no other country in the world will accept, so he can close the US Naval Detention Facility in Guantanamo, Cuba. Recently, the Joint Chiefs of Staff informed Congress that US Federal Law prevents the US Armed Forces from transferring Al Q’ieda and Taliban Terrorists detainees in Gitmo to the United States. If the US Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay is transferred to Castro’s Communist Cuba, most probably the Hezbollah terrorist training camp would be moved to the US Naval Base, in order to improve and expand their training capacity for Radical Islamic Terrorist.
In the last 7 years, despite the fact that thousands of Radical Islamic Terrorist have been captured in combat by US Military personnel in Afghanistan, often at the loss of life of US military personnel, none of those prisoners have ever been transferred to GITMO for interrogation, preventing the US military from having the required extended time required to extract valuable military intelligence from the Taliban Terrorists, most of those captured terrorists have been released from the Detention Facilities in Afghanistan to go right back to the battlefield to engage and kill American military personnel. In every military conflict over the 240 year history of the Republic, US military personnel have employed night time patrols, in order to capture high value enemy leaders, so they could extract high value current intelligence during interrogations. Instead of capturing high value Al Q’ieda and Taliban Terrorists leaders for interrogation, Obama has been having those terrorist leaders killed with drone strikes for 7 years---removing the ability of US Combat Forces from obtaining current and future battlefield intelligence, that policy for the last 7 years has ensured that high value terrorists will never be incarcerated in the Detention Facility in Guantanamo Bay Cuba.
By releasing prisoners on the battlefield to return to combat, when taken together with Obama’s public pronouncement that a certain number of combat personnel will be removed on specific dates, and by forcing dangerous Rules of Engagement (ROE) upon combat personnel for the last 7 years, US military personnel going into “Harm’s Way” in Afghanistan have been operating with their hands tied behind their backs. The new and dangerous ROE have increased the number of US military personnel Killed In Action (KIA) by 458 %/year and those Wounded In Action (WIA) increased by 378%/year. Obama policies in Afghanistan have effectively ensured that there will be no victory against the Taliban, Al Q’ieda, and Iranian Quid’s Force who have been providing IUDs to the Taliban, in order to kill and maim US military personnel.. The below listed link will provide details of how the percentage of KIA and WIA were calculated from raw data.
Please review the below listed article on Congressman Duncan D Hunter, Maj-USMCR (R-CA-52) concern about the closure of GITMO and the release of newly captured Taliban Terrorists enemy combatants on the battlefield, allowing them to return combat to kill US military personnel.
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The Washington Free Beacon
Obama Gitmo Policy May Force Pentagon to Release Newly Captured Terrorists
Lawmaker concerned push to close facility is releasing terrorists to battlefield
BY: Morgan Chalfant
February 22, 2016
President Obama’s push to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility may be forcing the Department of Defense to release suspected terrorists newly captured by U.S. forces overseas, according to a Republican lawmaker and former Marine.
Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA-52.) recently penned a letter to Defense Secretary Ash Carter expressing concern that Obama’s refusal to send new terrorist suspects to Guantanamo Bay is allowing them to return to the battlefield to fight U.S. forces and resume acts of terrorism.
“Given the clear position of Congress on the proposed closure of Guantanamo Bay and the prohibition on detainee transfers to domestic facilities, I am concerned that the Department of Defense is being forced to relinquish control of dangerous individuals captured by U.S. forces due to the president’s refusal to utilize Guantanamo Bay for new detention cases,” Hunter wrote to Carter on January 28.
“And once in foreign custody, an individual’s release can occur despite the best efforts of the U.S. to keep that individual in custody,” Hunter continued. “An already high-rate of recidivism adds to the probability that some individuals will subsequently reengage U.S. forces on the battlefield or resume terrorist activity. This puts American lives at risk.”
Obama, who promised to shut down Guantanamo Bay when he took office, has blocked captured terrorist suspects from being sent to the military prison. This, coupled with the United States’ closure of the detention facility near the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan at the end of 2014, raises questions about the Pentagon’s ability to detain suspected terrorists captured under the Authorization for Use of Military Force, Hunter wrote. Under the Obama administration, these terrorist suspects are typically transferred to foreign custody.
Hunter’s letter comes at a time of increased U.S. military presence abroad to combat terrorism. The Pentagon has sent limited numbers of special operations forces to both Iraq and Syria to assist groups fighting ISIS. These forces are engaging in some activities, such as conducting raids, which can result in the detention of terrorists.
Legal experts have worried about what the Pentagon will do with suspected terrorists captured by special operations forces operating against ISIS and its affiliates. Phillip Carter, who served as Obama’s Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary for Detainee Policy, told the Associated Press recently that the administration’s current policy may need to change.
“If you’re going to be doing counterterrorism operations that bring in detainees, you have to think through what you are going to do with them,” Carter said. “If the U.S. is going to conduct large-scale combat operations or large-scale special ops and bring in more detainees, it needs a different solution.”
The president accelerated his effort to close Guantanamo at the start of the year, reducing the detention center’s population to around 90 by releasing several detainees to their home countries. Among the group of released prisoners was an admitted member of Al Q’ieda who helped develop explosives for the terrorist group to target U.S. military forces and civilians.
Prisoners released from Guantanamo have resumed terrorist activities in the past. Ibrahim al-Qosi, Obama bin Laden’s former cook who was transferred from Guantanamo to his native Sudan in 2012, recently appeared in a jihadist propaganda video as a senior leader of al Qaeda’s branch in Yemen.
In the face of Republican opposition to his efforts, Obama has threatened to use executive action to move forward with his plan to close the facility, which would involve sending Guantanamo detainees to prisons in the United States. However, current law bars the military from transferring terrorist suspects held at the prison to U.S. facilities, which is bound to complicate the president’s efforts.
In his letter to Carter, Congressman Hunter asked the Pentagon Chief to clarify current policy regarding the detainment of individuals in military operations. The lawmaker also asked Carter to specify any circumstances under which U.S. forces would be required to release a captured individual, as well as what measures the Pentagon has in place to “account for” captured individuals transferred to foreign nations.
Joe Kasper, Congressman Hunter’s Chief of Staff, told the Free Beacon that Obama’s detainee policy can only lead the American public to assume that “many of the people our operators pick up are turned over and released, in some cases immediately.”
“The administration’s detainee policy, which revolves arounds the president’s commitment to close Guantanamo, is almost guaranteeing that some of America’s enemies won’t ever face justice or even the threat of detainment,” Kasper said.