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Al Qaeda leader, former Gitmo detainee threatens attack on U.S. cities
http://www.foreigndesknews.com/world/middle-east/al-qaeda-leader-former-gitmo-detainee-threatens-att ^ | NOV 4, 2016 | LISA DAFTARI

Posted on 11/06/2016 7:57:04 AM PST by Mr. Mojo

A senior Al Qaeda leader and former Guantanamo detainee in Yemen has called for renewed attacks on the U.S. just days before Americans prepare to vote for a new president.

“We pledge and vow to continue fighting America. Hitting, confronting and striking until it falls back behind the seas. None is upon us except by the will of Allah,” Ibrahim Al Qosi, a convicted Al Qaeda paymaster said in a speech entitled "15 years since the takeoff of the modern crusade."

The Foreign Desk has obtained a transcript of Al Qosi's speech.

Al Qosi advises followers to “concentrate your military expedition towards the crusaders and its apostate agents,” calling for renewed attacks against the U.S. while criticizing the Obama administration’s inaction in Syria that has allowed Russia and Iran to take a leading role in the conflict.

Al Qosi, 54, also know as Sheikh Khubayb al Sudani, is a Sudanese citizen who was detained by the U.S. in Afghanistan in 2001 and served a short prison sentence after admitting support for Al Qaeda.

He was transferred to Sudan in 2012 as part of a deal to rehabilitate former terror detainees, but in 2015, he resurfaced in Yemen reportedly as a leader with the Ansar al-Sharia terror group, more commonly known as Al Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).

U.S. officials Friday alerted federal officials in New York, Texas and Virginia about an unspecified threat by Al Qaeda around Election Day, though a government source deemed the threat “relatively low-level.” Authorities have been told to remain vigilant, according to Reuters.

It is unclear whether Al Qosi’s speech is connected to the latest threat.

Al Qosi touts Al Qaeda's legitimacy and power as a terror organization, emphasizing that despite America’s best attempts to destroy the group, they have only grown stronger, expanding to many more locations in the 15 years since the U.S. went to war with Afghanistan.

“Muslim youth and old” he claims, “are accepting jihad individually and in groups. Battalions are formed and brigades are prepared with fresh blood and enthusiasm.”

He also accuses America of being a “bystander” in the Syria conflict arguing that the U.S. prevented a no-fly zone that could have saved the lives of women and children and failed to arm rebels fighting Assad out of fear that the weapons could fall into the wrong hands.

Al Qosi's message extends beyond the U.S. with a stern warning for rival jihadis loyal to the Islamic State to turn away and to realign themselves with Al Qaeda:

“O followers of the Baghdadi Group, time has come for you to return, repent, and retreat… It is time you realize that you need your ummah and that the ummah needs its every power to defend itself from aggressive enemies.”

Al Qosi previously appeared in Al Qaeda videos as well as an interview with the terror group’s Inspire Magazine calling for so-called ‘lone wolf’ jihadi attacks against the U.S.

In July, The Foreign Desk reported on a video showing recruits training at an indoor facility in Yemen with jihadis taunting the U.S. into military confrontation and vowing to fight to capture Palestine and the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: aidandcomfort; alqosi; gitmo; islamo; islamonazism; obama; obamalegacy; obamasfault; proterrorist; waronterror; whywefight; wot
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“He was transferred to Sudan in 2012 as part of a deal to rehabilitate former terror detainees…”

Obama knows damn well that these Death Cultists can never be rehabilitated or "deradicalized." In his mind, that's all the more reason to release them.

1 posted on 11/06/2016 7:57:04 AM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: Mr. Mojo

pResident Obama stands exposed as a naked traitor who gave aid and comfort to the enemy in a time of war.

P!ss be upon him


2 posted on 11/06/2016 8:00:15 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Anthony Weiner's use of the P-word has been kept out of the media, why the double standard?)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Lol, these are the guys that America is supporting in Yemen against the Houthis.


3 posted on 11/06/2016 8:01:17 AM PST by Ethan Clive Osgoode (Potheads vote Dem.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Trump would have never released this terrorist or put him to death.


4 posted on 11/06/2016 8:02:07 AM PST by Blue Highway
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To: Mr. Mojo
0bamao released a deadly terrorist to prey upon the sane people of the nation and the world.

WHY hasn't 0bamao been arrested for treason??

5 posted on 11/06/2016 8:02:30 AM PST by Thumper1960 (Trump-2016)
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To: Thumper1960

Because he is POTUS and gets away with it.


6 posted on 11/06/2016 8:04:00 AM PST by 353FMG (TRUMP IS ALL THAT MATTERS)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Bring it, al-Koozie.

You can be greased by an armed “infidel” anywhere, anytime.


7 posted on 11/06/2016 8:04:59 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: 353FMG
So far.

Justice, in its myriad manifestations, will be satisfied.

8 posted on 11/06/2016 8:06:25 AM PST by Thumper1960 (Trump-2016)
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To: a fool in paradise

B I N G O !


9 posted on 11/06/2016 8:06:34 AM PST by DoughtyOne ( And on the third day they voted. And the Lord saw, and it was good.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Released from Gitmo in 2012.

Obama in White Hut.

Crooked Hillary SOS. Wonder how much Yemen paid the Clinton Crime Foundation for the release?


10 posted on 11/06/2016 8:06:53 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Bush never properly dealt with illegal combatants, and we have the result here, after Obama.


11 posted on 11/06/2016 8:07:26 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Thumper1960
WHY hasn't 0bamao been arrested for treason??

Same reason why Bush wasn't arrested for similar crimes.

12 posted on 11/06/2016 8:08:47 AM PST by Ethan Clive Osgoode (Potheads vote Dem.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Obama/Hillary - the booby prizes that keep on giving....


13 posted on 11/06/2016 8:14:21 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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...“concentrate your military expedition towards the crusaders and its apostate agents,” calling for renewed attacks against the U.S....

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I guess that’s why we have not seen Huma lately; she’s getting her muzzard regiment set up.


14 posted on 11/06/2016 8:16:53 AM PST by Bigg Red (Go away, Satan! -- Fr.Jacques Hamel (R.I.P., martyr))
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To: Mr. Mojo

Wow, who saw that coming?

Thanks to our Terrorist in Chief.


15 posted on 11/06/2016 8:17:59 AM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode

Whatever America is doing over in Yemen remains a complete mystery to me. Mainly because the conflict is rarely discussed in any public forum. There could be other radio shows, other news websites that do discuss and debate this circumstance, but I don’t know of any. The only conclusion I can arrive at is our actions over there don’t seem to have very much consequence or lasting power.


16 posted on 11/06/2016 8:17:59 AM PST by lee martell
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode

The Bushes are part of the Clinton Crime Family.

See this devastating video: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3489932/posts


17 posted on 11/06/2016 8:46:44 AM PST by fision
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To: Mr. Mojo

How does one rehabilitate a terrorist?


18 posted on 11/06/2016 8:54:46 AM PST by dp0622 (IThe only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: dp0622
How does one rehabilitate a terrorist?

Trick question?

I'd say a large calibre round to the base of the skull.

19 posted on 11/06/2016 8:58:29 AM PST by Thumper1960 (Trump-2016)
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To: Thumper1960

ROFL!!

He just needs a job and a hug!! :)


20 posted on 11/06/2016 9:00:49 AM PST by dp0622 (IThe only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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