Eric Umansky: Rice Cooking the Numbers: "May 22, 2006
Rice Cooking the Numbers
Secretary of State Rice explaining yesterday on Fox News why Gitmo can't be closed:
If we do close down Guantanamo, what becomes of the hundreds of dangerous people who were picked up on battlefields in Afghanistan, who were picked up because of their associations with Al Qaeda? We do have an obligation, the president has an obligation, to also keep America and, by the way, many of our allies safe by making certain that people don't return to the battlefield.
Men picked up on the 'battlefields in Afghanistan' and men connected to al-Qaida, eh Condi? According to a Seton Hall study that relied on the Pentagon's own data, just 11 percent of the detainees were captured 'on the battlefield' by coalition forces. Also, the majority of detainees--about 66 percent--were 'captured' in Pakistan. Just eight percent of the prisoners have been classified as 'Al-Qaida fighters. . .'"
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