Coming to a prison in New York.
Its “supermax” segregation wing, built at the height of the IRA’s bombing campaign, was designed to house dangerous inmates.
The IRA’s place as the main threat to Britain’s security has now been taken by Al-Qaeda and a new breed of terrorist is being held inside Long Lartin’s supermax isolation unit. The most prominent today is Abu Qatada, a radical Islamist cleric wanted on terrorism charges in Jordan and known to MI5 as “Osama Bin Laden’s right-hand man in Europe”.
But that is in England and things will be far different here. Right?
We have nothing to fear right? I mean our attorney general Eric Holder says that the prison they will be held at has a similar supermax wing.
The high-security prison in New York City where 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is expected to be sent to await his trial has a supermax wing to keep even the most notorious criminals quiet — but it isn't perfect. Just ask Louis Pepe.
Ten months before Al Qaeda in 2001 struck a deathblow in the heart lower Manhattan, one of the terrorist group's founding members plunged a sharpened comb through Pepe's left eye and into his brain, blinding the 42-year-old prison guard and causing severe brain injuries that plague him to this day.
Meanwhile back in England's supermax the Islamic radicals seem to be able to operate. I am sure there are some restrictions, but if there is one thing that we should have learned by now, it is that the enemy is resourceful and ingenious.
Yet last year, under the noses of warders, it is said that Qatada and Adel Abdel Bary, leader of the UK branch of Egyptian Islamic Jihad, were able to smuggle out a series of “fatwas” — religious rulings — legitimising attacks by AlQaeda and endorsing the murder of moderate Muslims.
All I can say is I am glad they are going to be up in New York to ruin the commute for the next couple of years with all of the security hassles. The police and security are going to have to be on their best for an extended time protecting these guys, which will take them away from other duties, and the jihadists will be waiting for that one time when the security folks let down their guard for just a moment. The security team not only has to be on the lookout for what their prisoners might do, but also constantly on the alert for those wishing to either help them escape or those wishing to do them harm.
Listen if the high taxes from Mayor Bloomberg doesn't run you out of town, waiting for a bunch of Al-Queda types to try a jail break ought to. But y'all have fun and continue to marvel at the wonderful awesomeness of Barry O and his team of Bush Derangement Syndrome sycophants.
Oh and a final word of warning from England.
“Islamist extremists are running rings around a Prison Service which often seems clueless about the nature of the extremist threat. If this situation is not tackled, British prisons risk becoming universities of terror.”
UPDATE: This afternoon the Obama administration confirmed that they are looking at a prison in Illinois as a possible location to move the Gitmo prisoners to.
A prison in northern Illinois is the leading contender to house detainees transferred from the federal facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a senior Obama administration official confirmed Saturday.
Officials from the White House and the Defense Department will be visiting the Thomson Correctional Center, about 150 miles west of Chicago.
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