So what you mean is they weren't terrorists before they were sent to the bay but became one in the bay.
Look, what I am saying is not that everyone in Gitmo is innocent and becomes a terrorist in there, I am saying that IF an innocent is incarcerated, he will almost definitely become a terrorist if he is ever released. Why? Because a) he'll sympathise with them a lot more and b) he'll have a personal hatred towards the US etc.
Now what happens is that people from Afghanistan, for example, are already being exposed to extremist propaganda on a daily basis. Their environment is already full of hatred and violence. When one of these people, innocent or not, is captured, tortured and humiliated and then returned to the same environment he was in before, he will have a completely different view on the propaganda and incitement he hears. For him, all that would be the truth and he will be a lot more inclined to join the terrorist groups propagating it. And when they do join the militant groups, these people, because of their deep personal hatred towards the west, are a whole lot motivated to fight and die when compared to some village kid who joined up because he thought it was cool.
And not to mention the people who are so devastated by their experiences that they become suicidal, prime candidates for suicide bombing.
I again find it strange how did the parent country allow them to be extradited in the first place if they were innocent.
Do you think a country like Afghanistan or Iraq has any say as to who is captured by the US? Even if they did, do you think the officials would actually care? For them, if the US wants to do something (that doesn't threaten their political interests), they have absolutely no reason or motivation to oppose it.
No official from these countries cares about any poor villagers who get thrown into helicopters because they were at the wrong place at the wrong time.
I for one find it highly suspicious that an innocent gets incarcerated, becomes a terrorist in the company of other detainees (all the while when Guantanamo isn't anything like your average prison), is released, reaches his home country and starts heading terrorist groups.
Then you don't understand the environment in which these innocents are born, raised and live their daily lives in, all the things they witness and everything they go through in prisons like Guantanamo.
If a western kid can go crazy on a killing spree because he was ignored by a girl, an Afghani villager can go crazy and end up leading a terrorist group because he was kidnapped and tortured by the 'guardians of freedom and democracy'. It is mental scarring coupled with easy access to guns and terrorist groups (respectively) that make these kinds of things possible.
