Posted on 12/30/2009 4:44:21 PM PST by American Dream 246
The leaders of the Detroit undie bomber’s Al-Qaeda group are Gitmo Grads and may have been represented by Eric Holder’s firm before their release.
Two Gitmo grads rehabilitated in Saudi Arabia rejoined the jihad and made a movie earlier this year.
Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Abu Sufyan al-Azdi al-Shahri (right) and former Guantanamo Bay detainee Abu al-Hareth Muhammad al-Oufi appeared in a threatening Al-Qaeda movie earlier this year. Said Ali al-Shihri (or al-Shahri) passed through a Saudi rehabilitation program for former jihadists before resurfacing with Al Qaeda in Yemen. (AFP)
The two set up their base in Yemen.
This week Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, based in Yemen, claimed responsibility for Friday’s attempted bombing of a Delta Airlines plane as it approached Detroit on a flight from Amsterdam with almost 300 people on board. The terror group released its message on several Al-Qaeda-linked websites. Two former Gitmo grads lead this Al-Qaeda organization in Yemen.
There are questions on whether Eric Holder’s former law firm represented these Al-Qaeda leaders in Yemen who were the masterminds behind the attempted Christmas plane bombing. Jammie Wearing Fool reported this from Pipeline News that Holder’s law firm may have represented the former Gitmo detainees who are Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula leaders.
There is an additional and intriguing angle involving Yemen, creating a confluence between, that country, Ft. Hood and the Obama administration, in that U.S. AG Holder’s former law firm, Covington & Burling, represented a number of Yemeni detainees who are/were being held in GITMO.
It was meddling by committed lefty attorneys which made military prosecution of the GITMO detainees so difficult. Relentless pressure applied by these advocates is what ultimately led to the Hamden decision [Hamden vs. Rumsfeld, 548 U.S. 557, 2006] in which the military tribunal system established by the Bush administration – relying upon long historical precedent – was overturned on a 5-3 Supreme Court decision, which for the first time in American history applied principles codified in the Geneva Accords to terrorists to which Geneva was long understood not to apply.
As we noted in a February piece [Former Partner Of Eric Holder's Law Firm Represents Cole Bomber And 14 Other GITMO Detainees, http://www.pipelinenews.org/index.cfm?page=holder1id=2.9.09%2Ehtm] the involvement in this process by Holder’s old law firm was substantial.
After a year in office we all know that Barack Obama is the most radical anti-American president in US history.
But the fact that his Attorney General’s former firm may have represented Al-Qaeda killers who are now planning attacks against innocent Americans takes it to a whole new level.
It’s not killing if ‘we’ American Attorneys General do it. ‘We’ call it ‘Justice’.
Anyone who listens to Mark Levin is not surprised by this.
Dang. “Feel”-good.
Instinct touch screen keyboards suck.
You’ve gotta be kidding me.
We’ve gotta fight moslem jihadis WHILE fighting our own government, which keeps AIDING AND ABETTING the jihadis as they kill Americans?
The Commies have completely jumped the shark, even by Commie standards (which are almost non-existent). Hell, even Stalin/Hitler wouldn’t have supported some foreign band of attackers picking off their citizens at random, inside Germany/Russia.
But Omoslem DOES! And his little Moslem-lover Eric Holder does too!
” After a year in office we all know that Barack Obama is the most radical anti-American president in US history.
But the fact that his Attorney General’s former firm may have represented Al-Qaeda killers who are now planning attacks against innocent Americans takes it to a whole new level.”
This started to percolate on Monday about Holder’s firm Covington & Burling and it’s Al Queda connection.
And it’s possible link to the Christmas Day terror attack.
If this was John Ashcroft , we would have had an answer by now.
The media would have hounded Ashcroft unmercifully.
This entire administration seems to have gone underground from Panetta to Hillary to Holder.
Except for two morons.
Jihad Janet and Beach Boy Barry .
The list, ping
BTTT
And, whatever was removed by the moderator in comment #4, I'm sure I agreed with.
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(sorry so long seems like a good place to put it)
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Lawyers for Gitmo detainees endorse Obama
Email|Link|Comments (16) Posted by csavage January 28, 2008 05:57 PM
Dear Friends:
We are at a critical point in the Presidential campaign, and as lawyers who have been deeply involved in the Guantanamo litigation to preserve the important right to habeas corpus, we are writing to urge you to support Senator Obama.
The Administration’s Guantanamo policies have undercut our values at home and stained our reputation around the world. All of us are lawyers who have worked on the Guantanamo habeas corpus litigation for many years, some of us since early 2002, and we were all deeply involved in opposing the Administration’s attempt to overturn the Supreme Court’s Rasul decision by stripping the courts of jurisdiction to hear the Guantanamo cases. We have talked with Senator Obama about why the Guantanamo litigation is so significant, and we have worked closely with Senator Obama in the fight to preserve habeas corpus.
Some politicians are all talk and no action. But we know from first-hand experience that Senator Obama has demonstrated extraordinary leadership on this critical and controversial issue. When others stood back, Senator Obama helped lead the fight in the Senate against the Administration’s efforts in the Fall of 2006 to strip the courts of jurisdiction, and when we were walking the halls of the Capitol trying to win over enough Senators to beat back the Administration’s bill, Senator Obama made his key staffers and even his offices available to help us. Senator Obama worked with us to count the votes, and he personally lobbied colleagues who worried about the political ramifications of voting to preserve habeas corpus for the men held at Guantanamo. He has understood that our strength as a nation stems from our commitment to our core values, and that we are strong enough to protect both our security and those values. Senator Obama demonstrated real leadership then and since, continuing to raise Guantanamo and habeas corpus in his speeches and in the debates.
The writ of habeas corpus dates to the Magna Carta, and was enshrined by the Founders in our Constitution. The Administration’s attack on habeas corpus rights is dangerous and wrong. America needs a President who will not triangulate this issue. We need a President who will restore the rule of law, demonstrate our commitment to human rights, and repair our reputation in the world community. Based on our work with him, we are convinced that Senator Obama can do this because he truly feels these issues “in his bones.”
We urge you to support Senator Obama.
We encourage you to forward this message to anyone who might be interested.
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Holder and BO’s motto: The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Very nicely done. Domestic enemies collector cards.
GRRRREAT post! Connect-the-criminals and their enablers.
Thirteen so far. Many more to do.
Thanks for posting. BTTT!
“May Have”? Did.
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