12-29-17

Trump considered sending the terrorist NYC truck driver to Gitmo in November. How many terrorists still are detained in Cuba? What is going on that more National Guard Military police soldiers are needed at Gitmo? Perhaps only time will tell.

Well, this says plenty. Conspirators rejoice:

The National Guard Army Commander ordered the unit to “do NOT discuss the mission on ANY social media platform.”

Arizona National Guard military police to help in Guantanamo

PHOENIX 

The Arizona Army National Guard is sending a unit of military police to Guantanamo Bay to help with Operation Enduring Freedom.

The soldiers are deploying Friday and will be gone for about nine months.

Officials with the Arizona National Guard say this is the second deployment for the 850th Military Police Battalion in the last 10 years in support of overseas contingency operations.

The more than four dozen soldiers assigned to the 850th are part of the few remaining Arizona National Guard members serving on federal active duty overseas.

In all, officials say the Arizona National Guard has supported more than 11,000 individual deployments since Sept. 11, 2001.

Source Miami Herald

AZ Army National Guard soldiers deploying to Guantanamo Bay in Cuba

PHOENIX (KSAZ) - An Arizona Army National Guard unit will begin the New Year in Cuba. They’re deploying to Guantanamo Bay for approximately nine months.

“There was some discussion some time back about actually shutting it down. Right now that’s not what’s going to happen so it’s still very important for us service members to be prepared to go and continue that mission,” said Arizona Army National Guard Command Sergeant Major Fidel Zamora.

That’s exactly what nearly 50 Arizona Army National Guard soldiers will soon be doing. These soldiers leaving for Guantanamo Bay in the coming days in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.

Once there, they’ll be on a joint task force helping to augment staff.

“Part of that is being able to inform and advise the Joint Task Force Commander there on military police tasks and procedures and part of that is just making sure that the staff runs effectively on a day to day basis,” said Colonel Rich Baldwin, the Land Component Commander of the Arizona Army National Guard.

Family and friends of these soldiers saw them off today.

“These are our citizen soldiers. These are soldiers that work in your communities. They go to your faith based organizations. They work in our super markets, in our police stations, in our fire stations,” Command Sergeant Major Zamora said.

This mission is so sensitive we were asked not to show the faces of these soldiers and their families.

“We don’t want to telegraph to the world who is going, who’s there and who’s performing this mission because they all have families that are still back here while they’re overseas doing this mission,” Colonel Baldwin said.

These soldiers won’t have contact with the detainees and they are expected to be deployed for about nine months.

SOURCE Fox 10

THIS IS A DEVELOPING STORY. STAY TUNED.

Trump: Consider Sending NYC Truck Attacker to Guantanamo Bay

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Wednesday he would “certainly consider” sending the man suspected of mowing down eight people and injuring others with a rented truck in New York City to the U.S. detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

“Send him to Gitmo — I would certainly consider that, yes,” the president told reporters ahead of a Cabinet meeting at the White House.

Asked whether the alleged attacker’s family could also represent a threat to the United States, Trump said he thought so.

“He did,” the president said of Sayfullo Saipov, the Uzbek immigrant suspected of carrying out what law enforcement said was an Islamic State-inspired terrorist attack.

Late Wednesday, Trump tweeted that he supported capital punishment in the case.

Earlier, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., argued that Saipov should be labeled an enemy combatant. That would allow the suspect to be interrogated without a lawyer present.

“If you take up arms against the United States in the name of radical Islam, you should be treated as a terrorist,” Graham, a member of the Judiciary and Armed Services committees, said Wednesday. “You’ll never convince me that the best way to gather intelligence in this war … is reading them their Miranda rights.”

Later Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the president considers the suspect to be an enemy combatant. 

As commander in chief, Trump can classify an individual as an enemy combatant, empowering the United States to detain that person without trial and without the rights granted to civilians, such as the right to a lawyer. The American Civil Liberties Union says more than half the detainees at Guantánamo Bay are being held without charge or trial.

Sen. John McCain, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, also argued for the designation.

“From Orlando to San Bernardino and Boston to Manhattan, we must not consider these attacks on our homeland in isolation, but rather recognize them for what they are: acts of war,” McCain said in a statement. “As such, the New York terror suspect should be held and interrogated — thoroughly, responsibly, and humanely — as an enemy combatant consistent with the Law of Armed Conflict.”

President Barack Obama’s administration sought to stop using the enemy combatant term, arguing in court that it could detain certain terrorism suspects without it. But the Trump administration revived it, applying the designation to an American IS fighter captured Sept. 12 in Syria. As a candidate, Trump promised to “load up” Guantánamo Bay “with some really bad dudes.”

However, an administration official told NBC News that there’s likely no legal authority to send Saipov to the detention facility. Federal charges were filed Wednesday.

SOURCE/READ MORE NBC News

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