ACLU Defends Guantanamo Terrorists
By John Perazzo
Discover The Networks – Moonbat Central
August 22, 2005

It appears that after years of incessantly accusing the U.S. military of abusing the captured terrorists and enemy combatants imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay, the ACLU’s public-relations battering ram has finally pounded a weary, much-maligned Pentagon into submission. Thus the ACLU has succeeded once again in helping terrorists keep hidden the details of whatever plots they and their cohorts may be hatching to murder more Americans in the future – and compounding the sin by sticking none other than American taxpayers with the bill for this abomination.

 

Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin reports that according to “astonished” U.S. military sources, the Pentagon recently permitted ACLU lawyers to sit in on interrogations of the al Qaeda and Taliban enemy combatants being held in Guantanamo; in the majority of cases, these attorneys advised the prisoners that they were under no obligation to answer military interrogators’ questions. Says one exasperated military source, “It’s as if they [the detainees] were [merely] shoplifters in the U.S. The lawyers may have left by now, but the damage is done. We’re sending guys [attorneys] down to interrogate on [the] taxpayer’s dime for absolutely no reason now.”

 

According to the G2 Bulletin, this development is part of the Pentagon’s recent bid to brighten the dark image that the ACLU, in its quest to discredit America’s anti-terrorism measures, has painted of Guantanamo Bay. Seeking to mollify critics, the Pentagon has begun phasing out the use of Army interrogators in Guantanamo and replacing them with some from the Navy.

 
The Pentagon has also appointed Marine Corps Col. Dwight Sullivan, who spent six years working for the ACLU, to be chief defense counsel for the military tribunals at Guantanamo. When Sullivan was named to this post last month, ACLU executive director Anthony Romero had these kind words to say about him: “Dwight Sullivan will bring renewed energy to the defense team at a critical time in the proceedings. He uniquely possesses substantial knowledge of military law and deep commitment to civil liberties.”
 
Exactly who are the individuals whose civil liberties Sullivan will be safeguarding so vigorously? Thus far, four defendants are slated to stand before military tribunals: (a) David Hicks (a.k.a. Mohammed Dawood), an Australian-born member of Lashkar-I-Taiba, an al Qaeda-affiliated group of Kashmiri terrorists headquartered in Pakistan. The organization’s goal is to wrest control of Kashmir from India via terrorist acts directed against both military and civilian targets. After the 9/11 attacks, Hicks was in the area of Kandahar, Afghanistan, where he was captured in December 2001 and charged with having fought alonside the Taliban against American and Northern Alliance forces; (b) Salim Hamdan, who managed to find work as Osama bin Laden’s driver and bodyguard, and who was captured in Afghanistan in late 2001; (c) Ali Hamza al-Bahlul, a key al Qaeda propagandist and also a bin Laden bodyguard, who produced recruitment and motivational videos for the organization; these videos glorified the murder of Americans; and (d) Ibrahim al-Qosi, a Sudanese accountant who served variously as a cook, driver, and bodyguard for bin Laden, and who helped funnel money to al Qaeda for explosives and weapons. 

Because they are busy attending to their work and family responsibilities, most Americans go about their lives utterly unaware that the ACLU works very hard, around the clock, to defend – under the righteous-sounding banner of “civil liberties” – the very people dedicated to their ultimate murder. And, for good measure, it uses American taxpayers’ money to finance this service.