GITMO Enemy Combatants Get $750,000 Soccer Field – With Video

I think I am going to puke. Then cry. Or maybe cry first and then puke. Who comes up with these ideas, funds them and gets them implemented? Was this one of Obama's grovel-ready projects?

I wonder what Obama will call it. The Mohammmad Atta Sports Field? Khalid Sheik Mohammed Sports Complex? How About Osama Obama?

More DOO DOO — Daily Obama Outrage

Pentagon – POLITICS Guantanamo detainees get new $750G soccer field

Fox News: At a time of record deficits, a new soccer field for detainees at Camp 6 in Guantanamo Bay is just getting the finishing touches — at a cost of $750,000 to taxpayers.

The project was the highlight of a tour Tuesday of the detention camp for reporters at the facility covering the arraignment in a military court of Majid Khan, a former Baltimore resident and the the only legal U.S. resident on trial at Guantanamo.

The project began in April 2011 and is due to finish this spring. The detainees will now have three recreation facilities at Camp 6, which is home to “highly compliant” detainees who live in a communal setting.

In addition to an indoor recreation field and the existing outdoor recreation field, the new soccer field — selected because it is such a popular sport with detainees — is half the size of an American football field.

The new field has been specially constructed so that the detainees “have maximum access” — about 20 hours a day. Special passageways allow the detainees to pass into the new recreation yard without being escorted by the military.

On the tour, a military police representative who asked not to be identified by name said allowing high levels of activity outdoors helped reduce behavioral problems at the camps, and it also limited the amount of interaction between detainees and the guards.

Since the detention camps opened in 2002, some half dozen cases have been prosecuted — four ended in plea agreements with minimal jail time.

Khan, accused of being hand-selected by Sept. 11, 2001, mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed for a second wave of attacks inside the U.S., including a plot to blow up gas stations, is expected to cut a deal. He is also implicated in an assassination plot against former Pakistani President Pervez Musharaff and a car bombing at the Marriott hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia, in 2003.

His appearance will be the first time anyone outside the U.S. military or intelligence community has seen him since his capture after Sept. 11 and transfer to secret prisons formerly maintained by the CIA.

Even some of President Obama’s most ardent supporters suggest the administration seems eager to close the camps and reduce the detainee population, and plea agreements with minimal jail time are a sweetheart deal for all involved.

Detainees like Usama bin Laden’s personal cook and his driver are spending less time in prison than American citizens prosecuted in federal courts on lesser charges.

By example, Zachary Chesser of Charlottesville, Va., who was convicted for making threats against the creators of “South Park” and for supporting a Somali terror group, but who never fired a shot on the battlefield, is now serving a 25-year sentence.

By contrast, Omar Khadr, who killed an American soldier on the battlefield in Afghanistan is nearly half way through his eight-year sentence at Guantanamo, and may finish out his term in Canada.

On Tuesday, Attorney General Eric Holder, testifying about the Justice Department budget on Capitol Hill, said the recidivism rate for Guantanamo detainees overall is in the mid-20s. But the recidivism rate for those transferred during the Obama administration is 7 percent. Holder acknowledged that part of that comparison may be because the former detainees have been out for a shorter period of time, but also because the determinations about each of their release had to be unanimously approved by a task force.

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infidel4life

12 years ago

“Who comes up with these ideas, funds them and gets them implemented?”
Lawyers. And judges. Lots and lots of leftist terrorist-enabling jihad-friendly lawyers and judges.

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tim p

12 years ago

Standard Operating Procedure – International Wealth Redistribution
PUNISH your ENEMIES, REWARD your Friends
White males suck

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Tom Billesley

12 years ago

Surgeons General, isn’t it time that one of you gave the Commander-in-Chief what used to called a “Section 8” discharge?

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Benjie

12 years ago

Er, a “soccer” field won’t have goalposts and an electronic scoreboard …

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Tom D

12 years ago

I don’t have a problem with this as long as it is done the right way: in the same spirit as, say, opening a Gitmo nursing home complete with wheelchairs, and then showing it to the inmates.

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Charles Martel

12 years ago

Unfortunately this is not surprising and not any worse than the $ 2 million Olympic pool built a few years ago, and proudly displayed on the first page of the WP.
Now like then I cannot help but thinking: “How dumb can our people be?” Don’t they listen to what I’m sure the intelligence services are telling them? Or what a minimal knowledge of Middle East culture tells you?
Do they really think they are buying respect? Give me a break! These efforts are just seen as clear proof that ours is a weak, spineless society, rotten to the core. But “we” believe that apologies and bowing the head will take us far … Good luck!

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Tanstaafl

12 years ago

As long as they use randomly exploding soccer balls………………..

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Person of the Book

12 years ago

I thought they were going to close GTMO. Why build all of this, unless you’re planning on keeping it open?

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Rick

12 years ago

I don’t mind the idea of integrating athletics into this detention facility, but my idea of the ideal “activity” is more along the lines of wrapping the prisoners in bacon and then having them run around a track pursued by rottweilers. Now that’s more like it.
That would be good exercise for them, good snacks for the dogs and excellent entertainment for the viewers.

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Keith Mahone (aka Charles Martel)

12 years ago

I have no problem with this as long as the landmines buried in the field are working properly and the detainees are forced to play for the soldier’s amusement every Friday while they drink beer and gamble.
Keith Mahone (aka Charles Martel)

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Auntie Gin

12 years ago

I don’t think o is doing enough for these poor detainees. Maybe they should bring in some prostitutes to help relieve their tensions. This would be funded, of course, by us.

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Tom Billesley

12 years ago

What next – a cricket pitch? This is cruel and unusual punishment.

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badger o stripey one

12 years ago

That’s a football pitch, not a soccer pitch.

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