Posted on 05/03/2011 8:04:39 PM PDT by MissesBush
In an especially well-timed release this week, Richard Miniter’s MASTERMIND: The Many Faces of the 9/11 Architect, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed reveals Mohammed’s rise to the top of Al Qaeda and his planning of the jihadist attacks on America in 2001.
More than that, though, Miniter’s book includes shocking new disclosures about how the US treats its detainees. Miniter tells Big Peace:
I was stunned to learn while researching Mastermind that Guantanamo detainees succeeded in convincing prison officials to no longer raise the American flag anywhere they could see it. Each morning on every U.S. military base around the world, the American flag is raised to a bugle. But in the interests of not offending the detainees, it was stopped at Guantanamo.
Released just after the killing of Osama Bin Laden, MASTERMIND combines on-the-scene reporting on three continents, thousands of documents, reports from intelligence agencies in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and the United States, as well as eyewitness accounts and exclusive interviews.
Some amazing excerpts:
The Secret Sex Life of a Jihadist KSM poses as a romantic, but only when the mood suits him. He adores the grand gesture—writing love poems to the wife of his CIA interrogator or, during a break in planning the pope’s assassination, buzzing with a rented helicopter the dental clinic where a Catholic Filipina girlfriend worked. KSM (and his nephew Ramzi Yousef) smiled down at her, while slowly unfurling a banner reading I LOVE YOU. Still, his romanticism had limits. A laptop seized by Philippine police features audio recordings of him mocking the whores he had rented. He was also an avid consumer of porn.
Clinton officials, liberal activists, and camera-chasing lawyers Clinton’s former attorney general, Janet Reno, agreed to headline fundraising efforts for the American Civil Liberties Union, a liberal Washington- based individual-rights group that has been at the center of legal fights over political issues for more than fifty years. In April 2008, the ACLU announced that it had raised a war chest of $8.5 million to provide a free legal- defense team for the more than three hundred detainees held at Guantánamo. While each of the detainees who had been formally charged, including KSM, already had military lawyers to provide a free legal defense for them, the ACLU was funding civilian lawyers who would attempt to bring legal claims on behalf of detainees in civilian courts and to provide research and support for military-defense lawyers.
Holder the Ideologue vs. Emanuel the Politico Obama’s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, soon went to war with Eric Holder over his plans to prosecute CIA officers and to hold civilian trials for detainees, like KSM, in New York. Holder still wanted to prosecute CIA officials who had interrogated Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and other high- value detainees, while Emanuel feared the political ramifications of antagonizing the CIA. “Didn’t he get the memo that we are not re litigating the past?” While playing hardball with the CIA interrogators, whose work had saved hundreds of lives, Holder sought to extend every legal courtesy to KSM and other high-value detainees, who had repeatedly confessed to joyfully mass-murdering thousands of civilians. Holder was still pushing ahead on civilian trials for Guantánamo detainees, the foremost of which was KSM.
Excerpted from Mastermind. Published by Sentinel. Copyright Richard Miniter, 2011.
Detainees should be required to bow their heads to the flag or go without eating. Naaaaah, they’d never approve of that, to the Libs it would be torture. Libs prefer to bow and kiss the detainee’s butts.
Alright, post it!!!!!..... You know you want to.... The pic of Nobama NOT saluting the flag...
This little nugget should not suprise us. This admin. despises this nation. I think it pained Obama to off UBL.
This should pour some cold water on an already tepid response to Obummer killing OBL. The left is out of its mind and America is fed up with this touchy feely BS.
Here’s a thought:
The detainees at Gitmo should have the US flag “etched” on their corneas. That way, they always remember the country they have “sinned” against.
Now they could take the old sharp stick and remove the offending orb, totally within their option.
But Uncle Sam has provided the permanent “tat” to remind them of their youthful indiscretions!
Interesting idea. Or a deeply tatooed American flag.
All detainees, or just the guilty ones?
Why don’t you move to Dearborn and sort them out for us?
I wonder if they’ve been told their idol is now in Hell....
Thank you TwoSwords. The terrorist defenders get tiresome.
Why? The military is doing a good job, unlike those who second-guess them and claim that the detainees are all guilty.
Note that the military has been smart enough to know that by tossing out bounties to get detainees, they’ve snagged a bunch of innocents. I think many people here would rather they took the time to gather up only the guilty, since they seem to want to hang everyone who was sent to Gitmo (note that the vast majority have been released, and to get the stats of “many of them are engaged in anti-American activity after their release,” they’re including former detainees complaining about their imprisonment on a blog. Heck, I’d complain, too!
As do the anti-military folks who assume that all detainees should be guilty.
Oh right, because all of us military families are anti-military. Only people like you who defend terrorists and insult our military are really pro-military. /s
No kidding. But Gondring is smart. Such a thing as being so smart you tie yourself into knots, though.
The only good terrorist is a dead terrorist!
Ergo, UBL is a good terrorist!
The life of every one of my friends and family, or anyone else serving America honorably, is worth too much to play your games. I recognize that some innocents have been detained; you seem not to want that. You seem to want to assume they're all guilty, even though some detainees were actually PRO-US but were turned in by anti-US informants! Well, to get 100% guilty, you're asking for extra processing burdens to be dumped on the field teams. No thanks.
What makes you feel that the military is so wrong in what they're doing?
(Don't get me wrong...it's sickening that we had the chef held for five years before a reporter brought pay stubs showing he was in London, not terrorist training camp... but I don't think we should be doing all the processing in the field.)
I dunno...a squealing waterboarded terrorist is pretty good, too. After all, that’s what they claim gave us UBL (though I must wonder if it might have been his son or someone ratting him out).
Why not? If the military is doing such a bad job I’m sure they could use your finesse. Particulally in Dearborn.
When 9-11 happened I felt we should’ve attacked all of the muslim countries. However, knowing that muslims are really just pawns of the larger powers this was never a option. America was limited in how they could retaliate against those who attacked America, without a all out war, due to their trade w our natural enemies, Russia and now China.
Until you really understand who gains from all of the Protestant countries bleeding their treasuries dry and the Catholic countries (France, Spain who quit helping as soon as they had a bombing, England didn’t quit when the had a bombing did they?) spending nothing you’ll really never know what the hell your talking about.
And one other thing you might think about. America’s intervention in the last two world wars caused Germany, the most warlike race who may have ever lived, to not expand beyond their current borders. Put yourself in their place and tell me if you wouldn’t want revenge. No one wants to be number two and they’re about the smartest people in the world next to Israeli’s and Germans don’t need motivation. Most people don’t consider WWI and WWII recent history. They don’t think like nations do.
We’re worried about offending imprisoned enemy combatants but not about offending our own Apaches by using Geronimo as the codename for bin Laden?
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