[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 8579]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




       GUANTANAMO DETAINEES WHO HAVE BEEN RELEASED KILL AMERICANS

  (Mr. WILSON of South Carolina asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, the front page of The 
Washington Post last week, June 9, reported attacks on U.S. by men set 
free, about 12 from Guantanamo Bay.
  The article revealed:
  ``The Obama administration believes that about 12 detainees released 
from the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have launched attacks against 
U.S. or allied forces in Afghanistan, killing about a half-dozen 
Americans . . . In March, a senior Pentagon official made a startling 
admission to lawmakers when he acknowledged that former Guantanamo 
inmates were responsible for the deaths of Americans overseas.
  ``But The Washington Post has learned additional details . . . while 
most of the incidents were directed at military personnel, the dead 
also included one American civilian: a female aid worker.''
  It is clear the President's dangerous release of Guantanamo detainees 
puts American families at risk of murder. An extraordinary deterrent to 
Islamic terrorists is the ability to incarcerate them for the duration 
of the war they have declared against American families.
  In conclusion, God bless our troops, and may the President, by his 
actions, never forget September the 11th in the global war on 
terrorism.
  Our sympathy to this week's victims of terrorism in Baghdad, Tel 
Aviv, and Orlando.

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