Posted on 01/24/2009 12:12:57 PM PST by flyfree
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Two men released from the US "war on terror" prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba have appeared in a video posted on a jihadist website, the SITE monitoring service reported.
One of the two former inmates, a Saudi man identified as Abu Sufyan al-Azdi al-Shahri, or prisoner number 372, has been elevated to the senior ranks of Al-Qaeda in Yemen, a US counter-terrorism official told AFP.
Three other men appear in the video, including Abu al-Hareth Muhammad al-Oufi, identified as an Al-Qaeda field commander. SITE later said he was prisoner No. 333.
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The latest case highlights the risk the new US administration faces as it moves to empty Guantanamo of its remaining 245 prisoners and close the controversial detention camp within a year.
Ping.
Did they wave to Obambi?
...in cheap caskets...
...in cheap caskets...
It must be good to be a liberal...
Your moral code and good intentions get people killed and yet you have no responsibility in that completely preventable outcome...
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So I guess they don’t care that Obama has reconciled the “false choice between our safety and our ideals” by closing Gitmo and declaring an end to the WOT.
I think the honeymoon is over
Just expressing their warm congratulations to the new president, I’m sure.
I want to laugh, but it’s too serious...
We need an ADULT in the WH immediately. Not a man-child who uses phrases like “I won” (is he in 5th grade still?) to try to steamroll political opponents to take a knee in regarding what he wants and one who understands that the “way things should be” never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever will be that way because there are people who are not so naive on the other side who will relish every minute to try and either humiliate our country, kill our citizens or any other thing they can think of.
It’s been what, four days? It feels like a lifetime already and it’s only going to get worse with this man leading us...pray for him, pray that he wakes up from the dream world he lives in and wants to take us all to...pray he understands that the unborn are living beings who feel the pain of being aborted. Pray that he understands the most important thing he can do for all of us is to put our safety and security far and above any “rights” an uncountried military combatent should ever receive. Pray that O realizes he’s looking that he becomes more conservative in his views and doesn’t destroy what is left of America.
Unless I’m missing something the article says this guy was released from Guantanamo in 2007.
Still, it points out the essential problem here.
They were released under the Bush presidency. I haven’t heard why they were released...but it shows what is going to happen with the rest of them.
ZEE NEWS.com - India Edition: Washington - "RELEASED GUANTANAMO DETAINEE NEW YEMEN AL QAEDA COMMANDER" (SNIPPET: "...Said Ali al-Shihri, who was jailed at Guantanamo for six years after his capture in Pakistan, has resurfaced as a leader of a Yemeni branch of al-Qaeda." SNIPPET: "That announcement, which carried the video post of al-Shihri, also included a second video of a second militant who identified himself as Abu al-Hareth Muhammad al-Oufi and claimed he had also been a Guantanamo captive, later released.") (January 24, 2009)
WASHINGTON TIMES.com - exclusive: "OBAMA TO CLOSE TERRORIST 'BLACK SITES'" by Sara A. Carter and Eli Lake (SNIPPET: "President Obama on Thursday will order the closure of so-called black sites, where CIA and European security services have interrogated terrorist suspects, under executive orders dismantling much of the Bush admistration's architecture for the war on terror, according to four individuals familiar with a draft executive order.") (January 21, 2009)
FOX NEWS.com: "MURTHA SAYS HE'D TAKE GUANTANAMO PRISONERS IN HIS DISTRICT" by Chad Pergram (SNIPPET: "But that idea disturbs House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio. "Most communities around America don't want dangerous terrorists imported into their neighborhoods," Boehner said in a statement.") (January 21, 2009)
RECAP - QUOTE:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2167923/posts
Plans to close Gitmo anger 9/11 victims’ families
AP via WTOP.com News ^ | January 20, 2009 - 3:32am | By BEN FOX,
Posted on January 20, 2009 2:48:21 AM PST by Cindy
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) - Plans to close Guantanamo are not sitting well with the Sept. 11 victims’ relatives who sat stunned while two alleged terrorists declared they were proud of their role in the plot.
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“Not a man-child who uses phrases like “I won” (is he in 5th grade still?)”
Snort - it did sound a little like, “Nanny-nanny-boo-boo”, didn’t it? I’d laugh if it weren’t so tragically sad.
that’s exactly what I was thinking and the vision of Rahm Emanuel with his taunting thumb on his nose peeking around O’s shoulder as well...
Bump
People laugh at Joe Biden but Bambi appears no smarter than Biden. In fact, as running mate and VP pick, it shows Bambi is/was completely incapable of picking a VP as I think about it, Biden will always be nearby to be used as a whipping post for all of the Bambi’s gaffes. Biden will be “used” often as a diversion. At least with alGore, you didn’t realize he’s mentally ill until he speaks, Biden is handy-capable.
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