Attack at Gitmo

Attack at Gitmo
By Lt. Col. Gordon Cucullu
FrontPageMagazine.com June 2, 2006

“These were the ones who have been behaving themselves.” That’s the description many officers and non-coms at the Joint Task Force – Guantanamo gave of the detainees held in Camp IV, a sub-unit of the Camp Delta detention compound, during my recent visit to the facility. While ultra-modern Camp V is a maximum security facility based on the US Federal system, and Camps I, II, and III are composed on individual confinement cells, Camp IV is unique. It is a medium-security facility permitting communal living. Camp IV is designed to be a key component of a rewards and incentives program intended to encourage compliance among the detainee population.

Unlike the individual cells characteristic of the other camps, inside the wire at Camp IV detainees live in 10-man bays in 40-man blocks. They are free to eat together or pray together if they choose. They sleep in a communal bay, have virtually unlimited outside recreation time that they share with another 10-man bay, and can communicate among themselves and with the scores of other detainees living in adjourning bays and blocks in Camp IV. They have access to a brand new basketball goal with a concrete court, an enclosed soccer field, chess and checker boards, playing cards, and access to library books. Of course, they receive the entire religious support package composed of Koran, cap, oil, beads, and rug. At any given time upwards to 200 detainees live in Camp IV.

Of the original 800-plus enemy combatants who were transported to Guantanamo, in the turbulent, post Operation Enduring Freedom days from Afghanistan, fewer than 490 now are being held. Where are the rest? Transferred mostly, to their countries of origin. Many have been returned to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, France, Australia, the United Kingdom, and Germany among other countries. Some, like the Uighers, Chinese nationals but Islamic fundamentalist terrorists-in-training pledged to fight the Peoples Republic, were not returned to China. U.S. policy is not to return detainees to countries that might torture or execute them. So they remain at Guantanamo under benign conditions or get transferred to third countries. A week or so ago five Uighers were transferred to Albania which agreed to accept them. The Chinese are protesting and want them back on terrorism charges.

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I have no idea why we took this terrorist scum to GITMO in the first place. What we should have done was squeeze them for any Intel we could get out of them and then put one in the nape of the neck of each one of them and fed the remains to the sharks. Keeping this scum at GITMO is like keeping cobras in your home in a cage, you're just asking for trouble and you're going to get it sooner or later.