The WSJ is reporting that a Kuwaiti once imprisioned at Gitmo is responsible for a recent suicide bombing in Iraq.
While NeoCon Torture Fetish Fascists are touting this as a fine example of why we need secret concentration camps to be able to imprison and torture people without trial or even evidence, there is of course another view to be taken... the rational one.
That is that this episode is more likely a reflection of the power of false imprisonment, life destruction, and torture to transform ordinary human beings into ticking time bombs.
There is an excellent three-part documentary on the rise of "Radical Islam" and the NeoCon Fascist Right (they don't use that term, but as a former "conservative" who still holds some of those principles close, I cannot bring myself to use that word to describe these monsters.)
The Documentary is called "The Power of Nightmares", and I cannot recommend it strongly enough for those who have not seen it. (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)
The recurring theme through much of this documentary's recital of the history of individual radical Islam leaders is that most of them started out as agitators and intellectuals who championed things like self-determination and land reform. They were each jailed and tortured for their troubles, and emerged as radically violent and almost completely unmoored from their liberal foundations. Only one seems to have healed enough to being a trip back from the edge of that void.
So, while the irrational fear-profiteers attempt to sell this bill of goods, thinking people should be aware that Gitmo is nothing, if not a veritable factory for producing more violently radical Muslims.
Maybe that was the idea all along...
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