US Senator Dianne Feinstein believes scores of freed Guantanamo inmates have returned to Jihad.
Dozens of released Guantanamo detainees have returned to the battlefield, a senior US senator says, urging the Barack Obama administration not release more inmates from the war-on-terrorism prison camp.
US Senator Dianne Feinstein told CBS television's Face the Nation program about a third of former inmates at the US naval base who have returned to fight against US interests come from Yemen, the new focal point in the US fight against terrorism.
"If you look at Yemen, and we're taking a good look at Yemen, what you see is, I think, at least 24 or 28 are confirmed returned to the battlefield in Yemen, and a number are suspected," said Feinstein, head of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
"If you combine the suspected and the confirmed, the number I have is 74 detainees have gone back into the fight, and I think that's bad," she said.
"I think the Gitmo experience is not one that leads to rehabilitation," Feinstein added.
Her views were seconded by Congressman Peter Hoekstra, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, who appeared on the same CBS television program.
"These people are released and a number of them go back to the battlefield," he said.
"When these Gitmo detainees find their way back on the battlefield, they're no longer focused on the conflict in Pakistan, Afghanistan or Iraq," he said.
"They form the corps of people who want to attack the United States. It's a national security, homeland security issue."
Their remarks came just days after a Pentagon spokesman confirmed that an increasing number of former detainees from the US prison in Guantanamo have forged links to militant groups after their release.
Spokesman Geoff Morrell told reporters last week the precise number remained classified, but was in keeping with a Defence Department report in April that found about 14 per cent of former Guantanamo inmates had engaged in or were suspected of having ties to militants.
The issue has taken on heightened importance after a failed attack on a US airliner on Christmas Day was tied to al-Qaeda's branch in Yemen, where two former Guantanamo detainees are believed to be acting as senior leaders.
President Barack Obama on Tuesday suspended transfers of Guantanamo detainees to Yemen following the Christmas Day incident.
The administration remains under intense pressure, however, from domestic critics not to release any of the remaining 198 detainees at Guantanamo, which include an estimated 91 Yemenis, amid rising fear in the United States regarding terrorism.
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good old obama, he hasnt done anything good in the year he has been in power, he has divided america, has spent a million odd dollars to fight demands that he produces his birth certificate, (the hawaii birth extract is an easy thing to conjure up it may or may not be real), he has hired thugs criminals islamics and communists into the whitehouse, apologised to the enemies of the very country he is suppose to support, declared that the u.s. is no longer a christian country, said that the u.s. is the third largest muslim country in the world, bowed down to an islamic king when the protocol only called for a nod of the head, but would not show any respect to the figurehead of england who is a close ally with the u.s., has declared that iran is just as entitled to nuclear power as the rest of the world even though iran is a bigger threat than north korea, and this is in spite of the fact that obama doesn't want nuclear power plants in the u.s., quoted the koran in public speeches, at times has refused to pay homage to the american flag which is a great disrespect to american heritage, gave billions away to corporations who wasted the money, never to be seen again, has lead america into a rutt of despair and poverty, and has racked up a deficit of trillions.
and now all his little mates that he set free from gauntomono are back fighting against the west.....
fair dinkum, ive said it elsewhere, and i'll say it again, if any president ever deserved to be assassinated, its obama.....
always kowtowing to the islamic faith and is well known for his interest in marxism/communism...
no wonder the U.S. is stuffed...
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