359 Terrorists Currently in US Federal Prisons
EmailA spokesperson for the U.S. Bureau of Prisons tells ABC News that federal facilities on American soil currently house:
240 inmates "with a nexus to or history of international terrorism";
119 inmates "with a nexus to or history of domestic terrorism."
The most serious incident involving any of them, the spokesperson said, was when on November 1, 2000, Mamdouh Mahmud Salim, a former top aide of Osama Bin Laden, stabbed federal prison guard Louis Pepe at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, causing him severe brain damage.
Salim is an inmate of the ADX Florence "Supermax" facility in Florence, Colorado, which is also home to Jose Padilla, Mahmud Abouhalima, Ramzi Yousef, Eric Rudolph, Terry Nichols, Zacarias Moussaoui, Wadih el-Hage and Richard Reid.
-jpt
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Once again, when they could SAVE money, they spend more money to replicate a place they already have just to placate their voters — and against the wishes of the majority of this country.
Whatever disaster awaits is one he will not be able to blame on George Bush.
Posted by: LWEaton | December 15, 2009, 3:08 pm 3:08 pm
“Once again, when they could SAVE money, they spend more money to replicate a place they already have
LWEaton | Dec 15, 2009 3:08:49 PM
Are you insane? In what bizarro land is a prison in CUBA staffed by the US military and supplied exclusively by air and military ships cheaper than a domestic high security prison – which also already exists? Think!
Posted by: jhw539 | December 15, 2009, 3:47 pm 3:47 pm
I see Obama’s sycophants have their talking points.
They’ll be talking about things being Bush’s fault when he’s leaving office in January of 2013.
The reason these fools were tried is because Eric Holder’s law firm represented them AGAINST the government and delayed the trials with a bunch of frivilous lawsuits.
And Obama himself stopped the trials when he took office.
It doesn’t do much good to THINK when what you all THINK is pretty much a pack of lies.
Posted by: Linda Eaton | December 15, 2009, 3:51 pm 3:51 pm
Um, weren’t tried…
Posted by: Linda Eaton | December 15, 2009, 3:51 pm 3:51 pm
What are the names of those who have been captured and jailed?
Posted by: Roxas | December 15, 2009, 3:59 pm 3:59 pm
This is so funny the hypocrit in cheif will now try and hold detainees indefinitley. He probably regrets or will, making that campaign promise to close Gitmo
Posted by: 'Un-American' | December 15, 2009, 4:00 pm 4:00 pm
This is so funny the hypocrit in cheif will now try and hold detainees indefinitley.
‘Un-American’ | Dec 15, 2009 4:00:24 PM
The nice thing is that Obama can’t hold them indefinitely – alone. Congress and the Supreme Court (or at least one as history has shown) will need to support him. Gitmo was an attempt by Bush to find a loophole around the checks and balances built into the Constitution and create his own personal dungeon without oversight. By moving prisoners into the US, the Obama administration is embracing the Constitution’s intent and precedents on limiting Executive power. Obama is far from perfect, but it is refreshing to see him moving definitively in the right direction of getting the Executive branch’s power back in balance.
Posted by: jhw539 | December 15, 2009, 4:39 pm 4:39 pm
Guantanamo had oversight, both by Congressional committees who oversee the military, and by Congress who held the purse strings.
Posted by: MayBee | December 15, 2009, 5:19 pm 5:19 pm