1 in 4 Ex-Detainees Have Terror Ties
The New York Times reports:
About one in four former detainees who have been transferred out of the Guantánamo Bay military prison are confirmed or suspected by American intelligence agencies of having engaged in terrorist activities after their release, the Obama administration said Tuesday.
A report by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence offered the most detailed public accounting yet of what the government says has happened to former Guantánamo detainees, a matter that has been the subject of heated political debate.
The report said that 448 of the 598 men who were transferred out of the prison after being held there without trial have not aroused further suspicion. But 81 others have been confirmed as having taken part in terrorist or insurgent activity, and 69 more are suspected of it.
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