ACLU Defends Youthful Terrorists

Posted on May 19, 2008

Sorry I’m a few days late on this news.

The United States has detained approximately 2,500 people younger than 18 as illegal enemy combatants in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay since 2002, according to a report filed by the Bush administration with the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child.

Although 2,400 of the juveniles were captured in Iraq after the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003, only 500 are still held in detention facilities in that country. The administration’s report, which was made public yesterday by the American Civil Liberties Union, says that most of the detained Iraqi youths were “engaging in anti-coalition activity.”

As of last month, 10 juveniles were still being held in Bagram, Afghanistan, out of 90 that had been captured in that country since 2002, according to the report.

Eight juveniles were brought to Guantanamo Bay since 2002, having been captured at ages ranging from 13 to 17. Although there are no juveniles at the prison in Cuba now, two people being held — 21-year-old Omar Khadr and 23-year-old Mohammed Jawad — were under 18 when they arrived. Both are facing trial by a military commission on charges of attempted murder.

Three of the other six juveniles once held at Guantanamo were sent back to Afghanistan in 2004, where they were put into a UNICEF rehabilitation program for child soldiers, according to the report. The last three juveniles were transferred back to their home countries.

The ACLU decried what is described as a “lack of safeguards” for youths captured by the U.S. military and “no comprehensive policy in place” for dealing with juveniles.

“Juveniles and former child soldiers should be treated first and foremost as candidates for rehabilitation and reintegration into society, not subjected to further victimization,” Jamil Dakwar, director of the ACLU’s human rights program, said in a statement.

Hat tip to Stephen Frank who sums it up nicely:

When will the IRS take away the tax exempt status of the vicious organization that wants criminals on the streets and bombers killing American soldiers and innocent civilians. This is a propaganda group for criminals.

We’ve come to expect such insanity from the ACLU who have proven to be more concerned with imaginary “rights” of terrorists than the the lives lost from their evil actions.

Rehabilitation? You’ve got to be kidding me!

Jules Crittenden weighs in.

» Filed Under 1st Amendment, ACLU, Illegal Activities, Islamicfascism, News, Stupidity, War On Terror

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One Response to “ACLU Defends Youthful Terrorists”

Mike J on May 20th, 2008 6:41 am

I guess they forgot that there is no age limit to being a terrorists and strapping a bomb on there chest and killing people. The ACLU is a breeding ground for terrorists. They support the people who are killing Americans. How nice. Its a shame that they are still able to do what they do. Why don’t all the terrorists supporters just move to Iran! This is just a pre-view of what will happen if Obama is elected!