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Al-Qaida Confirms "Martyrdom" of Former Guantanamo Detainee in Yemen
COUNTERTERRORISM BLOG.org ^ | December 6, 2009 | By Evan Kohlmann

Posted on 12/07/2009 10:38:26 PM PST by Cindy

SNIPPET: "Al-Qaida's network in the Arabian Peninsula (Yemen) has released the audio-recorded wills of two mujahideen operatives who were recently "martyred" in clashes with local security forces -- including former Guantanamo Bay detainee #114 Yusuf Muhammad Mubarak al-Jebairy al-Shehri. The younger brother of a senior Al-Qaida member, al-Shehri first left his home in Saudi Arabia in mid-2001 in order to wage jihad alongside the Taliban because he "thought that participating in jihad with the Taliban was the right thing to do... the Taliban were good Muslims.” In the midst of fleeing the crumbling Taliban frontline in late 2001, Yusuf al-Shehri was captured and sent as an Al-Qaida detainee to Guantanamo Bay."

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KEYWORDS: 114; aljebairy; alqaeda; alqaedayemen; alqaida; alshehri; alsheri; aqap; deadjihadi; deadjihadis; detainee114; gitmo; globaljihad; guantanamobay; gwot; saudiarabia; taleban; taliban; yemen; yusuf; yusufalshehri

1 posted on 12/07/2009 10:38:29 PM PST by Cindy
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To: All

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2 posted on 12/07/2009 10:39:12 PM PST by Cindy
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To: Cindy

rsa


3 posted on 12/07/2009 10:39:44 PM PST by happinesswithoutpeace (Whoever is righteous, let him be righteous still.)
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To: Cindy

Oh good!


4 posted on 12/07/2009 10:40:00 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: Cindy

See my tag line!


5 posted on 12/07/2009 11:17:54 PM PST by The Real Deal (The only good terrorist is a dead terrorist!)
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To: Cindy

In other words, the Nut Jobs offed themselves.

Nothing more nor less than an utter, dismal waste of human life, sanctioned and approved by what, as a class, are some of the looniest characters on the planet.


6 posted on 12/07/2009 11:20:33 PM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: Cindy

tag and release must be working

(don’t we wish...)


7 posted on 12/08/2009 1:08:48 AM PST by silverleaf (More folks being invited to the White House for Holiday parties than are being sent to Afghanistan)
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Good widdance to bad wubbish!


8 posted on 12/08/2009 2:50:37 AM PST by UAConservative (Audemus Jura Nostra Defendere)
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To: Cindy

...next martyr...please step forward.


9 posted on 12/08/2009 2:54:52 AM PST by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus)
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