We Let A(nother) Top Terrorist Subject Go

On the heels of learning how many times we allowed al Zarqawi to go free (whether he's alive or dead now seems to be the basis of some speculation), comes this:

Nabil al-Marabh was No. 27 on the FBI's list of terror suspects after Sept. 11. He trained in Afghanistan (news - web sites)'s militant camps, sent money to a roommate convicted in a foiled plot to bomb a hotel and boasted to an informant about plans to blow up a fuel truck inside a New York tunnel, FBI documents allege. The Bush administration set him free — to Syria — even though prosecutors had sought to bring criminal cases against him and judges openly expressed concerns about possible terrorist ties.

The emphasis is mine.

And to Syria? The spot considered most likely as next on our hit list? The great so-called hot bed of terrorism where we take suspects we want to interrogate outside of any finicky little rules about human rights or Geneva Conventions niceties?

Sometimes, I think there has to be a method to this madness while the rest of the time, I'm pretty sure it's just madness.