Pentagon Calls Suspects Enemy Combatants

Pentagon Calls Suspects Enemy Combatants

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WASHINGTON -

The 14 so-called "high-value" detainees who were transferred from secret CIA prisons to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, last year have all been declared enemy combatants and are subject to trial.

The Pentagon announced the declarations Thursday.

The detainees, including suspected planners of the Sept. 11 attacks, the USS Cole bombing and the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, will now be thrust into a military trial system mired in legal challenges and hampered by lengthy delays.

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We have heard a ton of horror stories from this place. However, transferring them to another horrible place doesn't solve our problem. Also, releasing them is not a very reasonable thought either.

The story says it could contain plotters for 9/11 (we are so dumb we still don't know who planned it), so if we release them they could gain a huge following and eventually attack the US again! What would be the correct way to go about the issue?

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