Yes, NOVA was specifically named as the spot for release.

Did I miss something? I haven’t found any place where the government is proposing to release known terrorists into the general population.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090511/ap_on_go_co/us_congress_guantanamo_bay

Your attention is directed to paragraph 8 of subject article. If found not guilty or released on a technicality (as has been done) you can expect them to remain in this country as no other country wants them. Of course, we could send them back to their own countries but that is not pc as they might have an “accident” or two. Electricity and water don’t mix.

Detaining enemy combatants operating outside of the Geneva Convention is pretty darned light treatment. Under international law, executing them on the spot is entirely permitted. - well, it depends - how was this combatant apprehended? What are the charges - hard to make a blanket statement like that.

If you’re confused enough to think that soldiers “apprehend” enemy combatants on the battlefield and levy “charges” against them, I can understand why this seems so foreign. In actuality, soldiers either kill enemy combatants or take them prisoner, and there are no “charges” or legal process to that activity although the treatment of prisoners is governed by the Geneva Convention and a couple other international agreements to which the United States subscribes.

The Geneva Convention only applies to “lawful” combatants, which are generally defined as those who wear recognizable uniforms, operate as a military combat force, and have a chain of command, among a few other attributes. Anyone falling outside of these attributes, such as spies, have no legal protections whatsoever under international law, and their treatment is governed exclusively by Department of Defense policy and the “Rules of Engagement” dictated to U.S. military personnel.

Those policies generally would permit summary courts-martial to order that an unlawful combatant be summarily executed in the field after any useful intelligence information was humanely obtained from them. The legal authority to do so remains, so in cases where we have an unlawful combatant who cannot be repatriated to their home country for whatever reason, execution by firing squad is a lawful and likely far more preferable option than to release them at the corner of Grant and Church streets with one hundred dollars of the taxpayer’s money and advised to keep out of trouble lest we become upset with them.

Detaining enemy combatants operating outside of the Geneva Convention is pretty darned light treatment. Under international law, executing them on the spot is entirely permitted. - well, it depends - how was this combatant apprehended? What are the charges - hard to make a blanket statement like that.

God, you gotta love “real” journalism.
Do the Editors even spell-check in their haste to publish, or are they really this %^(*& stupid?

Orrin Street in Vienna, Virginia is a particularly good place.

http://911review.org/brad.com/archives/Alsheri_neighbor-parties.html