Thomas Joscelyn of the Weekly Standard is upset that Bermuda is resettling four Uighurs from the Guantanamo Bay prison facility. He’s upset because they received guerilla training at Tora Bora. Uighurs are an oppressed Chinese-Muslim minority group who oppose their atheistic communist government. I don’t know when it became a crime to receive guerilla training for the purpose of fighting against Communism, but it must have been sometime since 1960.

In April 1960, the CIA began to recruit anti-Castro Cuban exiles in the Miami area. Until July 1960, assessment and training was carried out on Useppa Island and at various other facilities in South Florida, such as Homestead AFB. Specialist guerrilla training took place at Fort Gulick, Panama. For the increasing ranks of recruits, infantry training was carried out at a CIA-run base code-named JMTrax near Retalhuleu in the Sierra Madre on the Pacific coast of Guatemala. The exiles group named themselves Brigade 2506 (Brigada Asalto 2506). In summer 1960, an airfield (code-named JMMadd, aka Rayo Base) was constructed near Retalhuleu, Guatemala. Gunnery and flight training of Brigade 2506 air crews was carried out by personnel from Alabama ANG (Air National Guard), using at least six Douglas B-26 Invaders in the markings of FAG (Fuerza AĆ©rea Guatemalteca), legitimate delivery of those to the FAG being delayed by about 6 months. A further 26 B-26s were obtained from US military stocks, ‘sanitized’ to obscure their origins, and about 20 of them were converted for offensive operations by deletion of defensive armament, standardization of the Eight-gun nose, addition of underwing drop tanks, rocket racks, etc. Nearby, paratroop training was at a base nicknamed Garrapatenango, near Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. Training for boat handling and amphibious landings took place at Vieques Island, Puerto Rico. Tank training took place at Fort Knox, Kentucky and Fort Benning, Georgia. Underwater demolition training took place at Belle Chase near New Orleans.

If the Cuban-born veterans of the Bay of Pigs invasion had all been considered too dangerous to live in the United States or to do any travel, the CIA would have been half-staffed over the last fifty years and Miami would have been empty. I know China is now our banker so we can’t call them communist anymore. But not everyone sees it that way. There was a time, like during the entire duration of the Cold War, when we thought fighting the Chinese communist government was a good thing. There was a time when we trained religious Muslims to fight atheistic communists. I don’t know what happened to those good old days. Seems like everyone has forgotten them and turned to a life of full-time bedwetting.

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