Counter-Terrorism: Guantanamo Bay And The Future Of Islam

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Strategy Page:

January 30, 2015:

 

Since it was established in 2002 the United States has sent nearly 800 Islamic terrorism suspects to Guantanamo Bay prison. Since then only about one percent have been tried and convicted but 80 percent have been released. Of those released 29 percent returned to Islamic terrorist activity. Those in Guantanamo came from 40 countries but most were from the Middle East and about a quarter were from Saudi Arabia. Add Yemen and a few other Persian Gulf countries and that means 40 percent came from the Arabian Peninsula. Another quarter came from Afghanistan and Pakistan. The rest of the Middle East and North Africa accounted for nearly 20 percent. The rest came from 27 other countries, including some in the West (like nine Moslem from Britain although were born in Moslem nations or had parents were born there.) The questions always was, why some many Islamic terrorists from a region newly wealthy because it owns most of the planet’s oil?

 

While many detainees came from a poverty, many did not. Most of the forty percent that came from Arabia (Saudi Arabia, Yemen and the Gulf States) were economically well off. While Yemen has not got much of the oil wealth the rest of Arabia possesses, Yemenis have shared in that wealth. At least they did until 1991, when Yemen declared its support for Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. Saudi Arabia then expelled a million Yemenis who were working in Saudi Arabia. Ever since Saudi Arabia became oil rich, relations with Yemen have been bad. For thousands of years, Yemen was more populous and wealthy than what is now Saudi Arabia. That's because Yemen is the only part of Arabia that gets enough rainfall to support agriculture (and a larger population.) Yemeni ports have long prospered from trade between India, Egypt and Africa. But with the oil wealth, those nomad hicks up north were suddenly wealthy. Very wealthy and very unpopular with the envious Yemenis. But many bright and ambitious Yemenis moved north and prospered. Many of these did not get expelled in 1991 because they had become citizens. Among those was the bin Laden family, which had become wealthy in the construction business. But like many of these newly wealthy families, some of the kids wanted a cause and business was not enough. World conquest under the banner of Islam was more attractive and that’s who so many of these children of affluence turned to mass murder for fulfillment.

 

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Most of the Guantanamo Bay prisoners did sort out their lives before they were released. Years spent with some really hard-core Islamic radicals did not always turn young Moslem men into dedicated Islamic terrorists. Often it just made it clear that Islamic terrorism was just another bad habit many Moslem nations are prone to.

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6 idiots on TV proving jst how stupid they can be.

 

http://youtu.be/14YrSD3u6dc

 

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