Islamic radicals recruiting in prisons

Fox News:

The debate over what to do with the prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention center got more complicated this week when the FBI foiled an alleged terror plot in New York.

The arrest of four men Wednesday on charges that they plotted to bomb two New York City synagogues and shoot down military airplanes served as a reminder that there are terror cells operating in the United States.

It also provided evidence to some lawmakers that closing the detention center at Guantanamo Bay or releasing any of its 240 detainees into the U.S. federal prison system would further endanger national security.

"The initial reports that we're getting [are] that these alleged terrorists were converted to radical Islam in jails. I think we need to look at that as a problem as well if jails are going to become a breeding ground for people to convert to any kind radical Islam," Rep. Eliot Engel, (D-N.Y.) told FOX News.

Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) told FOX News that Islamic radicalization is already a problem in prisons.

"And now if you're bringing hundreds of prisoners from Guantanamo who are very ideologically trained, that will add to it," he said. "And I can tell you, going back several years, whether it's California or New York, there's a real concern about these house conversions because they often become the most radical."

But Frank Cilluffo, director of the Homeland Security Policy Institute at George Washington University, told FOXNews.com that any risk of bringing detainees into the federal prison system can be contained.

"If they had access to the general population, there's huge concern for radicalization," he said. "If they're isolated, I think that concern exists, but I think it can also be handled and addressed."

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You know the ACLU and the human rights wackos will protest isolating these prisoners. There is another problem with putting them in with other prisoners that is the opposite of the radicalization issue. These prisoners will very likely be attacked by prisoners angry with the Islamic religious bigots for murdering fellow Americans and they will attack the Islamist.

There is really no good reason to bring them from a very good facility at Gitmo and put them in a US prison other than to please some people who are not worth pleasing and do not have our interest at heart.