Benghazi in June. Sand, Sharia and .....
...”the president .... to lift the prohibition on sending detainees to Yemen.”
...”the president .... is to set efforts to fight al Qaeda and its affiliates.”
Ugh? What an ‘insane’ contradiction!!!
The prisoners will be released and get another chance at violence against the US. They need trials before a military commission, not transfers to the civil courts.
Several al-Qaeda militants escaped from a prison in the southern Yemeni port city of Aden, officials said, tunnelling their way out in the second such jailbreak this year.
'Al-Qaeda fighters' escape from Yemen jail
22 Jun 2011 11:41
Dozens of alleged al-Qaeda fighters have escaped from a prison in southern Yemen, according to security officials. Up to 40 inmates attacked the guards and seized their arms early on Wednesday, as bands of heavily armed gunmen attacked the prison in the port city of Mukalla in Hadramout province, the Associated Press news agency citing security officials said.
3 al-Qaida members escape from prison in southern Yemen
2013-03-07 02:06:50
ADEN, Yemen, March 6 (Xinhua) -- At least three members of the Yemen-based al-Qaida branch escaped from an intelligence jail in the southern province of Abyan on Wednesday evening, a security official told Xinhua. Three al-Qaida inmates escaped from the military intelligence jail in Mudiyah town in Abyan province, after a short shootout with guards at the prison, the local security official said on condition of anonymity.
USS Cole plotter escapes prison
Sunday, February 5, 2006; Posted: 5:17 p.m. EST (22:17 GMT)
CNN) -- Interpol has issued "an urgent global security alert" after 23 "dangerous individuals" -- including a man identified as the mastermind of the attack on the USS Cole in 2000 -- escaped from a Yemeni prison.
The international crime-fighting organization said Sunday at least 13 of the 23 who escaped Friday were "convicted al Qaeda terrorists, some of whom were involved in attacks on U.S. and French ships in 2000 and 2002."
Ulterior motives. FUBO
The man is an anti-colonialist.
Closing the prison is not his main goal. He wants to give the land back to Cuba.