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A look at gitmo. Ben Newman English 101 – Monday Wednesday 1:30 Guantanamo
Bay Is there room for ethics in the modern Jihad? September ...
... November 1, 2005 Detainees at Gitmo showing desperation (Washington Post via Houston
Chronicle ... steps start to add up, and without stepping back to look at the ...
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Ben Newman
English 101 – Monday Wednesday 1:30
Guantanamo Bay
Is there room for ethics in the modern Jihad?
September 11th 2001, four planes were hijacked by terrorists after they left the airport. The terrorists on board had 4 targets that they wanted to use their newly acquired flying bombs to hit high rated targets in the United States. 3 of those planes 4 planes hit there targets taking down both world trade center buildings and the third striking the pentagon. These events claimed the lives of over 3,000 Americans and brought America into a type of war that no nation has ever been able to stand against the modern jihad. In the immediate aftermath of the attacks the United States military activated to full strength and began to prepare for the war that would inevitably follow. The first nation targeted for an overt attack was the weak regime in Afghanistan. The Taliban was actually installed into power and armed by the United States during the “cold war” to fight the USSR. The Demons of the cold war had come back to haunt us, and it was the regimes that we had anointed that had risen and turned on their old masters with a hatred that we had fueled and with the weapons that we gave them.
America had officially entered into the Jihad with an enemy that it had trained, and trained well. This enemy did not operate like the enemies that we are used to fighting. There is no one organization in this war instead we are fighting against hundreds each one has its own goals and methods and cracking an enemy like that is nearly impossible using old techniques. So the president’s advisors on such matters told him this and informed him that the only way for use to get good Intel on this enemy is to hold them and integrate them as to who they work for. They felt that the best way to accomplish this was to keep certain high rated enemy combatants and to hold them at a single point where they can be interrogated for...
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