Thank God Gitmo is still in operation, with the best interrogators we have on the job. Enjoy this little nugget from today's WaPo on a taliban member (and former Gitmo resident) killed after returning to the war -
"Mehsud, who was believed to be about 31, fought alongside the Taliban in the 1990s as it battled the group known as the Northern Alliance for supremacy in Afghanistan.
Mehsud was captured in northern Afghanistan in late 2001, after the U.S. invasion in October that year. Following 25 months in the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, he was released in March 2004, according to the Defense Department. He apparently succeeded in concealing his identity while there. Following his release, the Defense Department said it had determined he had been associated with the Taliban since his teenage years and had been described as an "al-Qaeda-linked facilitator."
Oh my god, i feel so much better about this operation. I mean, I was worried about our international standing and the damage the detention center was doing to our image, but at least we know that those guys aren't letting anything slip through the cracks. In fairness, 25 months really isn't enough time to get to the really GOOD torture, the stuff that reveals a person's name and all....