Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Another former Gitmo detainee killed in a shootout
Long War Journal ^ | October 21, 2009 | THOMAS JOSCELYN

Posted on 10/22/2009 9:43:56 AM PDT by La Lydia

On Oct. 13, a former Guantanamo detainee named Yousef Mohammed al Shihri was killed in a shootout at a checkpoint along the Saudi-Yemeni border. Al Shihri and his accomplices were stopped by Saudi security forces after their suspicious behavior drew attention. Two of the travelers, including al Shihri, were reportedly dressed as women. Saudi security personnel decided to search the al Qaeda car and its passengers, but al Shihri and the others opened fire. Al Shihri and one other al Qaeda member were killed in the shootout, while a third was arrested. One Saudi security officer was also killed.

Al Shihri’s death comes just weeks after one of his al Qaeda colleagues, Fahd Saleh Suleiman al Jutayli, was similarly killed in a shootout between the Yemeni Army and Houthi rebels in northern Yemen. Shortly thereafter, Al Shihri called his family in Saudi Arabia to tell them of al Jutayli’s death and to ask them to inform al Jutayli’s family.

The Saudi security personnel who searched al Shihri’s car reportedly found a small cache of arms, including suicide explosive belts. According to a spokesman for the Saudi Interior Ministry:

"An initial inspection showed two of them wearing explosive belts ready to be detonated, besides a number of hand grenades. A number of other grenades and automatic weapons as well as materials suspected of being for use to manufacture and prepare explosives were also found inside the car.? That Yousef Mohammed al Shihri returned to jihad after being released from Guantanamo is not surprising given what the US government alleged about him in three memos written between Sept. 25, 2004 and Oct. 12, 2006. The publicly-available documents do not include any record of al Shihri attending his combatant status review tribunal (CSRT) or administrative review board (ARB) hearings, so it is not clear if al Shihri attempted to answer all of the allegations against him. However, the US government’s memos note that when al Shihri was challenged with the inconsistencies in his cover story and his lies concerning his time in Afghanistan, he “flatly refused to cooperate” and “told more lies.” It is therefore possible that he never attended either his CSRT or ARB hearings, both of which required voluntary participation.

According to the US military and intelligence officials who investigated al Shihri’s case, he was a committed jihadist who left his home for Afghanistan in early 2001....


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: islam; terror; violence
Saudis: Dude looked like a lady.
1 posted on 10/22/2009 9:43:56 AM PDT by La Lydia
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: La Lydia

What was the basis for his release and when did it occur?


2 posted on 10/22/2009 9:46:49 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("The Democrats scare me, the Republicans anger me." RJL)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: La Lydia

Is that a banana in your berka or are you just happy to see me?....


3 posted on 10/22/2009 9:50:14 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: La Lydia

Looks like Dear Leader has blood on his hands if he released the former Gitmo guest to his ultimate death.


4 posted on 10/22/2009 9:52:49 AM PDT by TommyTrojan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: La Lydia
 
You mean this bearded Lady was shot? 
 
                 Good!
 
  Not enough beer in the world to fix that.
 
 
            Buh, Bye!
 
 
 

5 posted on 10/22/2009 9:53:09 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: La Lydia
Another former Gitmo detainee killed in a shootout

another serendipitous good conclusion to a bad plan of releasing these terrorist, scum....

6 posted on 10/22/2009 9:53:24 AM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: La Lydia
Smuggling suicide belts into Saudi Arabia?

What's that definition of appeasement?

Feeding the alligator in the hope that he eats you last...

7 posted on 10/22/2009 9:53:26 AM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 273 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: NonValueAdded

The article at the link explains this in great detail. And the explanation is outrageous.


8 posted on 10/22/2009 9:54:29 AM PDT by La Lydia
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Vendome

Well.........bye!

9 posted on 10/22/2009 9:56:24 AM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: La Lydia
Two of the travelers, including al Shihri, were reportedly dressed as women.


10 posted on 10/22/2009 9:59:01 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Not White House Approved)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: La Lydia
Two of the travelers, including al Shihri, were reportedly dressed as women.


11 posted on 10/22/2009 9:59:06 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Not White House Approved)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: La Lydia

Lola, L-O-L-A, Lola.


12 posted on 10/22/2009 10:01:03 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: La Lydia

It would be much cheaper, easier and safer to just shoot the whole bunch now.


13 posted on 10/22/2009 10:03:00 AM PDT by Venturer
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: La Lydia

Bawahahahaha LOL Karma works.


14 posted on 10/22/2009 10:03:49 AM PDT by Danae (No political party should pick candidates. That's the voters job.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Vaquero
 
 

15 posted on 10/22/2009 10:04:55 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: Venturer

My favorite solution involves turning them over to the Saudis and telling the Saudis about their plans to kill the Saudi king. Meanwhile, I hope our soldiers are just killing them all instead of taking prisoners.


16 posted on 10/22/2009 10:06:04 AM PDT by La Lydia
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: Berlin_Freeper

I hate to burst your bubble, but she is no doubt covered with a thick, black pelt on her arms and legs as well. Also: mustache.


17 posted on 10/22/2009 10:08:04 AM PDT by La Lydia
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: Vendome

....I gots ta know???

18 posted on 10/22/2009 10:15:33 AM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: Vaquero

If you must, the youtube clip of that scene ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maBJzJgYjto


19 posted on 10/22/2009 10:17:54 AM PDT by Scythian
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: Vaquero

Too much.

Click!


20 posted on 10/22/2009 10:21:45 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: La Lydia

I never thought I’d say this to the Saudis, but “Great job!”


21 posted on 10/22/2009 10:22:40 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("When France chides you for appeasement, you know you're scraping bottom." --Charles Krauthammer)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: La Lydia

There’s the silver lining.


22 posted on 10/22/2009 10:34:02 AM PDT by bgill (The framers of the US Constitution established an entire federal government in 18 pages.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: La Lydia

Saudis: Dude looked like a lady”

In an area of the world that has absolutely no respect for anything female, it is ironic that he was dressed as a woman and got shot....

God does have a sense of humor...


23 posted on 10/22/2009 10:38:18 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: AngelesCrestHighway
Is that a banana in your berka or are you just happy to see me?....

More likely the barrel of an AK.

24 posted on 10/22/2009 10:44:28 AM PDT by OpeEdMunkey (Eat right...exercise...die anyway.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Vaquero

K-Bye!


25 posted on 10/22/2009 10:51:10 AM PDT by GOYAKLA
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: La Lydia

Allah akbar!


26 posted on 10/22/2009 11:02:16 AM PDT by lwd
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Vendome
Al-Qaeda. It’s so easy...

...even a caveman can do it.

27 posted on 10/22/2009 11:07:25 AM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: La Lydia
They both graduated from the Saudi jihadist rehabilitation program I'd love to know the details of this program. Do they hand out cute little certificates of acheivment on graduation day?
28 posted on 10/22/2009 11:23:20 AM PDT by lwd
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: lwd
Do they hand out cute little certificates of acheivment on graduation day?

*sniff* *sniff* They blow up so fast. *sniff*

29 posted on 10/22/2009 11:26:16 AM PDT by dfwgator
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 28 | View Replies]

To: lwd
There's a T-shirt:

I SURVIVED THE JIHADIST REHABILITATION PROGRAM.

30 posted on 10/22/2009 11:28:34 AM PDT by firebrand
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 28 | View Replies]

To: Vaquero

Albert Popwell. Clint used him in a bunch of Dirty Harry flicks. Died recently.


31 posted on 10/22/2009 2:52:33 PM PDT by driftless2 (for long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: driftless2

yup...played his partner in the last dirty harry movies

but who could forget big ed mustapha???

he was Clints buddy.


32 posted on 10/22/2009 3:01:24 PM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 31 | View Replies]

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson