The ACLU understands that all terrorists need is a big hug and some hot cocoa.
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.
Boys will be boys.
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“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.
Meanwhile the French are upstaging Obama by talking to Hamas.
France has had informal contacts with Hamas, the militant Palestinian group that rules Gaza, Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said Monday.
Kouchner, speaking on Europe-1 radio, was confirming a report in the daily Le Figaro that quoted a retired diplomat as saying he met with Hamas leaders a month ago.
Hamas is considered a terrorist organization by the European Union and the United States. Fatah had dominated Palestinian politics for decades, but was trounced by Hamas in 2006 parliamentary elections. In June 2007, the militant Islamic group took Gaza by force, triggering a crisis among Palestinians.
Embrace the appeasement.
''They assured (me) that they were ready to accept a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders, which amounts to an indirect recognition of Israel,'' the diplomat was quoted as saying.
''They said they were ready to stop suicide attacks and, what surprised me is that the Islamist leaders recognize the legitimacy of Mahmoud Abbas,'' the moderate Palestinian president and Fatah's leader, de la Messuziere said. Abbas' West Bank government is in a bitter rivalry with the Hamas regime in Gaza.
Israel is the only country in history to give away it's own land in an effort for peace. The 1993 Oslo Accords were signed in good faith, and the suicide attacks continued. France needs to understand that the issue is not national, religious in nature. Muslims cannot accept a Jewish state, and have shown that throughout the history of Islam. To accept Hamas as acting on good faith now is beyond naive.
