Fighting Terrorism

Obie made a speech yesterday, in which he called Guantanamo a recruiting beacon for Al-Quaida, which needs to be shut down.

"Rather than keep us safer, the prison at Guantanamo has weakened American national security," Obama said. "It is a rallying cry for our enemies. It sets back the willingness of our allies to work with us in fighting an enemy that operates in scores of countries. By any measure, the costs of keeping it open far exceed the complications involved in closing it. That is why I argued that it should be closed throughout my campaign. And that is why I ordered it closed within one year."

I can hear the conversation now:
Farouk:" Say Mohammed, why don't you join us in striking dead the infidel? The worst that can happen is you get sent to Cuba for a while to work on your tan, then you get released in the US, heart of the enemy!"
Mo: "Of course, and the best is that I'll ascend to heaven where I can drink like a fish and rut like a rabbit for all eternity!"

It does make an arguement for re-opening Alcatraz, although relocating the facility to, say, Adak, Alaska also offers possibilities.

Meantime, back at the ranch, the FBI and the NYPD just picked up 4 of the wannabe jihadis, having provided them with silly-putty bombs and training rockets to try to make a splash in New York. These 4 seem to include at least 3 who converted to Islam in the joint.

Several of the suspects have previously been arrested on drug charges and may have converted to Islam in prison, authorities said.

I have never heard of anyone converting to Islam and deciding to take up jihad while interned at Gitmo. All those folks were born to it. If Obie wants to reduce terrorist recruiting, perhaps he should consider segregating the US prisons and setting up some Islam-only institutions to try to quarrentine the "Mecca flu".