Terrorists should never be released from prison

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In 1985, I was invited by the United Nations to address the delegates at the UN Congress held in Milan. My subject was terrorism. I was concerned that terrorists who were imprisoned were later released and some of the terrorist who were released had committed more acts of terrorism. I recommend that the terrorists who are responsible for deaths of their victims be executed. 

At the request of the Italian government, instead of giving my speech from my desk on the floor of the Congress, I was to give my speech from the podium as the Italian government wanted my speech to be televised and shown that night all over Italy.  Newspapers around the world published parts of my speech. The Toronto Star published my entire speech. 

I am still concerned that terrorists are being released from prisons. Israel has release many hundreds of terrorist since my 1985 speech. A great many terrorists were released so that the body of a Israeli soldier could be returned to the soldier’s family. Some of the released terrorists later committed more acts of terrorism.

Saudi Arabia in April 2019 executed 37 of its citizens convicted of terrorism. They were beheaded. The terrorists who killed many victims by s large bomb in the Island of Bali Indonesia  were executed by a firing squad.

The United States executed the man who bombed the office building in Oklahoma. Many people died in that explosion. He was executed by lethal injection. The surviving terrorist brother who planted bombs on the sidewalks during the Boston marathon which killed three people and injured several hundred others, including 16 who lost limbs was sentenced to death and is waiting for his execution by lethal injection.

Until recently, few homegrown violent jihadists have been released from U.S. correctional facilities which unfortunately offers little insight into the effect of prison time on such persons.  Of this small pool of released terrorists, none have returned to terrorist activities, according to various sources. In the next twenty years, the U.S. is to release scores of similar individuals. It is unknown how many of these former homegrown violent jihadists will conduct  themselves after they are released from prison  How successfully they reintegrate into life outside of prison might influence the homegrown violent jihadist threat landscape. Will a significant portion of these released jihadists foster new terrorist plots?

Since 9/11, more than 250 people have been convicted for their involvement in homegrown violent jihadist plots in the United States.  

In a shocking report, The Guardian (of all places) had released an analysis of figures compiled by the U.K.’s Sentencing Council that show more than 80 out of 193 prison terms issued for terrorism-related offenses between 2007 and 2016 will have run out by the end of  2018.

The Guardian also pointed out that the number of extremists released may be even higher because prisoners are eligible for release halfway through their sentences in the U.K. Alarmingly, almost a third of the sentences given for the preparation of terrorist acts in 2016 will be served in full by the end of the year. In 2019, 23 more sentences will run out.

It had been officially announced that the threat of an attack by an extremist Islamist will remain elevated for the next two years and likely stretch on for even longer however, that isn’t accounting for the flow of terrorists being released from prison and back out to the streets in 2018 and beyond

Authorities in London were facing tough questions on November 30^th 2019 as they pieced together events that led to two people being killed in a terror attack near London Bridge on the day earlier.. Three others were injured. 

The suspect in the attack was 28-year-old Usman Khan, a convicted terrorist who had been deemed a threat to the public according to  CBS News' reports. He was convicted on terrorism charges, part of a group that plotted to blow up the London Stock Exchange. He was jailed in 2012 and released in 2018. He won’t be going back to prison since he was shot dead by the police.

The most recent American government report, which was published in September2019 showed re-engagement in terrorism of prisoners through July 15, 2016. The report included information on 693 prisoners released since the prison opened in 2002. The government also reported that 17.6 percent―122 individuals—had been "confirmed of re-engaging in terrorism " and 12.4 percent 86 individuals were suspected of re-engaging in terrorism.

In a  2012 House Armed Services Committee report it  included some examples of released detainees who committed new terrorist acts, such as Abdallah Saleh Ali al-Ajmi who was released in 2005 and conducted a suicide bombing in Iraq in 2008.

In June 2014, the New America Foundation, a centrist think tank, compiled its own numbers of released former detainees, using Pentagon reports, news stories and other public information. At the time there were 620 released prisoners, and the foundation found that 54 of them "are either confirmed to be or suspected of engaging in militant activities against either the U.S. or non-U.S. targets."

 Part of Gardner’s claim stems from a Washington Post article that stated that the Obama administration believed that at least 12 released detainees later launched attacks at U.S. or allied forces in Afghanistan, killing about a half-dozen American Nine of the released detainees suspected to have launched new terrorist attacks were dead or in foreign government custody and all of them were released during Bush’s administration. 

The Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency disclosed a sharp rise in the number of Gitmo detainees who rejoin terrorist groups after leaving U.S. custody. Using data such as fingerprints, pictures and other reports the defense agency, which gathers foreign military intelligence, determined that the number of Middle Eastern terrorists who returned to “the fight” after being released nearly doubled in a short time.

In 2014, years after liberating an Al Qaeda operative from Gitmo, the U.S. government put him on a global terrorist list and offered a $5 million reward for information on his whereabouts. It would almost be funny if it wasn’t so pathetic. 

As I said it in the beginning of this article, terrorists who are apprehended should never be released from prison. If they are convicted of murder, they should be executed.

If you think that I am heartless, consider this scenario;

You and your family are traveling on a highway and a terrorist suddenly throws a bomb at your car. It explodes and  your wife, and two small children are killed and you have lost both of your legs. He is caught and convicted of three counts of murder and one count of causing a serious injury to you. He is sentenced to life in prison. Ten years later, for reasons you cannot fathom, he is released. Five years later, he throws another bomb at another family and they are all  killed  and he escapes and no knows where he is.  Now do you feel that this terrorist should never have been released in the first place?

The bastard should have been executed. If he was executed, the second family would still be alive.

If you are one of those religious twits who believes that murderers should be forgiven for their deeds, how forgiving would you be if the murder you have forgiven is released and kills more innocent persons. Forgiving has its limits.