Ex-Gitmo detainee vows to fight Russia

Yup, our catch-n-release policy at Gitmo is just working swell:

A Danish man who was released from U.S. military detention in Guantanamo Bay told a television interviewer he plans to travel to Chechnya and join Islamic militants fighting Russian forces.

In a live interview with the DR-1 television channel Wednesday night, Slimane Hadj Abderrahmane said he planned to go into hiding and then "try to find a way to Chechnya."

As a condition of his release from Guantanamo in February, Abderrahmane pledged to refrain from warfare. Of the pledge, he said, "They can use it as toilet paper over there in the United States." (emphasis mine --johnh)

Then the Danes compound the problem by refusing to nab this jihadist and send him back to the U.S. so we can stick him back in gitmo until he dies of old age:

Although lawmakers criticized the remarks as out of bounds [ya think?] and said they amounted to incitement to violence, they did not violate any Danish laws.

However, certain Danes are making the right noises:

Danish Justice Minister Lene Espersen said Abderrahmane's comments represented "a new situation that the law enforcement authorities must reconsider."

Pia Kjaersgaard, the leader of the Danish People's Party, said Abderrahmane's behavior was "completely grotesque" and urged the government to hand him over to the U.S. authorities.

Another lawmaker, Elisabeth Arnold of the centrist Radical Party, said he represented "a risk."

A risk? Gee...you might be right! Has anyone else noticed that in Europe it is the parties with "Radical" in their name that make the most sense?

The U.S. rescued the European countries during WW II. And then we did more to protect Western Europe from the USSR during the Cold War (i.e., WW III) than the Europeans did to protect themselves. They owe us. If they cannot be relied on to lock-up a self-avowed jihadist for the duration of this war against terrorist they should at least return him to the U.S. for safekeeping.

Then again, I guess it is too much to expect counties that cannot be bothered to defend themselves in WW III to do anything material for the “ally” that defended them during WW II and WW III

Then again, seeing how Denmark couldn’t be bothered to defend herself during WW II and WW III perhaps it is wishful thinking to expect her to do anything material for her old “ally” in the War against Terrorists (i.e., WW IV).

Is John Kerry thinking about Denmark when he claims that he will get allies who will join the U.S. in Iraq? Hah! Those Botox injections must have damaged the part of John Kerry’s brain that distinguishes reality from delusions. I prediect—if the requisite miracle occurs and the American people of have a collective fit of stupidity on election day—that the only thing that President Kerry will get out of Denmark is the finger.

Credits: lucianne