A bit off thread topic. This is posted here for archival purposes.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2566678/posts
“State Department: former Gitmo detainee led terror cell in Jordan”
LONG WAR JOURNAL.org ^ | August 7, 2010 | By THOMAS JOSCELYN
Posted on August 8, 2010 2:25:00 AM PDT by Cindy
SNIPPET: “A former Guantanamo detainee named Usama Abu Kabir led a terror cell in Jordan that was broken up in 2009, according to a new report by the US State Department. On Thursday, the State Department released its Country Reports on Terrorism for 2009. “In April [2009],” the report notes, “four men were arrested and charged with plotting attacks in Israel in retaliation for the Israeli incursion into Gaza.” Kabir was one of the four. A fifth member of the cell was arrested in May 2009.
Kabir’s arrest was previously reported in the Israeli and Jordanian press. But the State Department’s latest report adds a new detail, saying that Kabir is suspected of being the cell’s leader.
The “alleged leader of the cell,” the State Department reports, was Kabir, a Jordanian who “had been released from US custody at Guantanamo Bay in November 2007.” Kabir’s terror cell was “reportedly in possession of firearms at the time of their apprehension.”
In February of this year, a Jordanian court sentenced Kabir and two other cell members to 15 years in prison. An additional two plotters were sentenced to 5 years in prison. A sixth member of the cell, who remains at large, was sentenced in absentia to life in prison.”
Read more: http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2010/08/state_department_for.php#ixzz0w0JwdhWa
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http://www.haaretz.com/news/jordan-jails-6-for-plotting-to-fight-israel-during-gaza-war-1.264003
Published 17:01 02.03.10Latest update 17:03 02.03.10
“Jordan jails 6 for plotting to fight Israel during Gaza war
Five suspects arrested in April, May 2009, with the other, still at large, tried in absentia.”
By DPA and Haaretz Service
Tags: al-Qaida Israel news Gaza Jordan
SNIPPET: “Mohammad Jamal Hamdan, who is still at large, was sentenced to life imprisonment with hard labor.
Osama Abu Kabir, Sakhr Zeidan and Hassan Khalayleh were sentenced to 15 years with hard labour. The court also jailed Walid Abu Ourah and Alauddin Khawaldeh for five years with hard labour.
“All defendants plotted to leave Jordan illegally and join fighters in the Gaza Strip at the beginning of 2009,” the indictment said.
On Sunday, extremist web sites released a new video by a Jordanian Al-Qaida operative, responsible for an attack on an U.S. army base in Afghanistan last December which killed 7 CIA agents as well as a Jordanian intelligence officer.”