The United States government has put al Qaeda's Ibrahim al-Rubaish on a global terrorist list and offered a $5 million reward for information on his whereabouts. Once we knew his whereabouts -- Guantanamo Bay detention center. But in 2006, the U.S. released Rubaish to Saudi Arabia where he was to be "rehabilitated."
At the time, Rubaysh was a poster child for the terrorist detainee-sympathizing, anti-Gitmo crew. Marc Falkoff, a lawyer for detainees and editor of Poems from Guantánamo: The Detainees Speak, included in his collection a poem by Rubaysh called "Ode to the Sea." In his introduction to the poetry collection Falkoff, described Rubaysh as follows:
Ibrahim al-Rubaish was teaching in Pakistan when he was arrested by mercenaries and sold to allied forces. A religious scholar who dislikes hostility and was once a candidate for a judgeship, Rubaish has a daughter, born just three months before he was captured, who is now five years old.
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Next Time You Hear About the Wonders of Rehab...
...bear in mind Mr. Rehab himself, Jihadist-turned-poet (according to his gushing defense lawyer, Marc Falkoff), Ibrahim al-Rubaish. As this story relates:
Gosh, you really have to wonder what our government was doing incarcerating a sweetie like that. Indeed, one can only speculate whether Mr. Falkoff could hold himself together while describing such a saintly man.
Well, anyway, now that Ibrahim al-Rubaish has been "rehabilitated," he has returned to -- guess what? -- writing more poems plotting to murder Americans, as many as he can count heads to slice off.
Rehab is a great thing, I tell you.
Bill, there you go again--popping the bubbles of platitudes with a needle of fact.
You must stop. We wouldn't want Decencyevolves' head to explode.
One thing I've noticed about Decencyevolves is that he's careful about choosing his targets. When facts show up he doesn't want to deal with, he just hunkers down.
Which is of course his right. But it's worth taking note of.
For my own part, I think it's astounding that this country, under both Bush (example above) and Obama, releases terrorists knowing or having good reason to believe that they will return to killing Americans.
There is no legal obligation -- and it's simply nuts -- to release prisoners of war before the war is over. Who will be accountable for the additional American soldiers these people kill?
It goes without saying releasing terrorists is a bad idea. I think terrorists need something more akin to re-education, North Korea style. Perhaps they (North Korea) can give us some tips in exchange for taking it easy on the hacking.