attack the united states. it s a somewhat peculiar case. politically it s a balancing act, i don t think it works. jon: he is apparently in his mid 20 s, a somali suspect thought to be some kind of a gun runner as you said or maybe a go-between, between al-qaida in the arabian peninsula and al-shabaab, two organizations that definitely would like to do harm to america. the bush administration wrestled about what to do with these enemy combatants and came up with the guantanamo prison as a place to hold them. this administration didn t much like that idea, but doesn t seem to know what else to do besides guantanamo. you could kind of see what is happening here. i think the president might be trying i think they ve realized that they didn t have any good p alternatives to guantanamo. bringing them to the united states was politically untenable. the cia used to have these