Posted on 01/23/2009 5:43:00 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
Yeah, bummer that guy we released from Gitmo has become an al Qaeda biggie. Disappointing, really. But hey, let the Saudis worry about it. Nothing for us to fret about here in America. As we all know, al Qaeda terrorists based in the Middle East pose no threat to the United States!
That, in a mind-numbing nutshell, was the reaction of Rep. Jane Harman to the New York Times report that Said Ali al-Shihri, released from Gitmo in 2007, has become the deputy leader of Al Qaeda’s branch in Yemen. Harman made her mind-boggling statement under questioning from CBS Early Show co-anchor Maggie Rodriguez this morning.
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Can Dems really be this naive about terrorism ping to Today show list.
If they keep having that attitude 2010 will look like 1994. They will lose everything they gained.
None of her constituents have sons or daughters serving in the war in terror? No wonder she can be so blase.
Lucky lady, lucky district.
(Wasn’t this arrogant elitist on the Intelligence sub committee?)
Sad how much we've let them down.
The real risk is that they will open the way for an attack that will make 9/11 look like a minor incident.
They are willing to trade innocent lives for their idea of principle.
She's right. With the exception of one isolated incident, a minor snafu on September 1, 2001, a group of nineteen al Qaeda terrorists based in Afghanistan posed no threat to the United States over the course of several years of training.
Oh, sure, it's only "their" problem...... how many of the 9/11 terrorists came from the Arabian peninsula, 15??!!??
This is unreal. The Democrats are a menace to our national security..... and Harman is supposed to be one of the "good" Democrats, not as nutty as all the Moonbats like Pelosi? Oh, sure.....
It is wrong to feel some justification knowing that the population centers that put these people into power will be the primary targets... It really is.
There are no terrorists at Gitmo. Just innocent misunderstood yoots.
Just ask them.
Democrats’ New Intelligence Chairman Needs a Crash Course on al Qaeda
This woman was on the House intelligence subcommittee and she did not even know this man:
returned to terrorism
is a SAUDI citizen
I found this out in a 2 minute search.
She is an idiot.
Mark her name for future reference when Americans ask, after the next attack, “what went wrong”
Who the heck elects these fools to govern us?
I blame the guard who served him a slightly burned slice of toast one morning ;-)
Where did this happen again?
AQ won’t wait two years to hit us again.
Jane Jane Jane- you ignorant slut, He’s NOT a Yemeni!
From Stratfor
Al Qaeda Suspect Captured With Weapons Cache
July 3, 2003
Saudi police have captured another al Qaeda suspect thought to be linked to the May 12 suicide bombings in Riyadh. Zafer Abdul Rahman al-Shihri was caught in an abandoned house in the southern province of al-Namas. A cache of 50 automatic weapons, ammunition, forged identification papers and a personal computer were found in al-Shihiri’s possession, the Saudi Press Agency reports. The Al-Watan daily reported July 3 that al-Shihri was holding a loaded gun when he was arrested, but he did not resist.
Police and tribal leaders in al-Namas had searched for al-Shihiri for three days. Police chief Brig. Gen. Ali al-Hazmi said they noticed a suspicious individual living in the abandoned home in al-Khaderah. Authorities discovered that he was the man they sought and enlisted the suspect’s father and brother to try to pursuade him to surrender.’
Question is- how did he end up in Gitmo?
It sure looks like a lot of cowardly foreign governments DUMPED their terrorists on us to avoid offending al Qaeda and then enjoyed the free ride of criticizing US detainee “abuses”.
Now are they ready to take their own heat? Hmmmm?
That was in Yemen!
Not America’s problem- unless you happen to be a sailor, marine, or family member...
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