Posted on 07/03/2004 2:02:13 PM PDT by wagglebee
July 3 (Bloomberg) -- Five suspected terrorists were released from the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and returned to Saudi Arabia as part of a secret agreement last year, the New York Times reported, citing unidentified senior U.S. and U.K. officials.
In return, Saudi Arabia released five U.K. citizens and two others who had been convicted of terrorist strikes in Saudi Arabia, the newspaper reported on its Web site in a story to be published in tomorrow's edition. U.K. diplomats said the men had likely given false confessions after being tortured by Saudi security police officers, the newspaper reported.
Pentagon, Central Intelligence Agency and Justice Department officials at first objected to the transfer of the Saudi suspects, who they said were possibly too great of a threat to be released from U.S. custody, the Times reported, citing unidentified officials involved in the deliberations. The deal helped satisfy important allies as the U.S. invaded Iraq, the paper said.
``There is no recollection here of any linkage between these two actions,'' Sean McCormick, a spokesman for the National Security Council, told the Times. He denied that the Saudi detainees were transferred in exchange for the U.K. prisoners. He said the return of the Saudis was ``part of the normal policy of transferring detainees from Guantanamo for prosecution or continued detention.''
This guy has seen one too many Tom Clancy movies.
Significance. What's the significance of this? Anybody? Anybody?
Nor me . . . consider the source. The Slimes will print a retraction on page 103 of the Want Ads soon.
If one is looking for truth in the written media . . . you'd have better luck reading the National Enquirer. Hey! Why couldn't that Egyptian woman have given birth to a four-headed camel? Pee Wee Clinton, supposedly, came from a Homo Sapiens. It coulda happened.
I remembeber these guys being released. It probably happened.
Won't work; we would not have let these guys go if they were truly valuable.
This is smoke, and the Slimes hope it'll catch fire.
Those Brits could be those fellows accused of terrorist related alcohol bootlegging.
No one really believed that story, many thought the bombings were Islamists, the foreigners framed up.
All the old gay lady has to do is put the headline out there and that is what gets read. Most people only read the head line. This makes the administration look bad, like an Iran Contra secret. Those of us who read the article say so damn what.
you're gonna want to see this....
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