Lisa DeGroff
Aug 27, 2017 · 1 min read

Sorry, you lost me there. Abd al Rashim al Nashiri tried to kill my husband. He does not deny planning the destruction of the USS Cole, and in fact admitted that an earlier target had been my husband’s ship — but the security was too tight. There is nothing racially or religiously motivated by his incarceration. He planned the death of hundreds of US Sailors; the fact that he did not succeed in his body count is not relevant to his need to be kept locked up.

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