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Gitmo Detainee to be Released Next Week
ABC ^ | February 20, 2009 | Jake Tapper

Posted on 02/20/2009 10:31:51 PM PST by BAW

ABC News has learned that the Obama administration will begin the process of releasing a prisoner from the Detainee Center at Guantanamo Bay next week, perhaps as early as Monday.

Binyam Mohamed, a 30-year-old Ethiopian and legal resident of the UK, will be transferred into British custody, government officials told ABC News. The British will fly Mohamed back to England. The British government has signaled it intends to subject Mohamed to surveillance, but he is not expected to be arrested.

British authorities have long expressed concern that any evidence against Mohamed would be inadmissible because of alleged torture against him by Pakistani and U.S. authorities.

The White House had no comment.

Mohamed has been detained at Gitmo since September 2004. He was first arrested in Pakistan by local authorities in 2002 and turned over to U.S. military authorities a few months later.

According to the Combatant Status Review Board filings summarizing evidence against Mohamed for combatant status review tribunal recently made unclassified (see HERE and HERE), Mohamed "received paramilitary training" at the al Faruq training camp in Afghanistan.

There he learned about "light arms handling, explosives, and principles of topography." He was "taught to falsify documents and received instruction from a senior al Qaida operative on how to encode telephone numbers..."

"The detainee proposed, to senior al-Qaida leaders, the idea of attacking subway trains in the United States," the board statement says. In Karachi, Mohamed "received explosives and remote-controlled-detonator training from an al Qaida operative." An al Qaida operative also told Mohamed to go to the U.S. "to assistant in terrorist operations," the document states. He allegedly was planning to use a "dirty bomb."

All terrorism-related charges against Mohamed were dropped in 2007.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
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To: Just Lori

Post no. 9 lays it out.


21 posted on 02/21/2009 12:42:00 AM PST by Cindy
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To: BAW

If one American is hurt from this; we know who to look for.


22 posted on 02/21/2009 1:44:36 AM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: freekitty
"If one American is hurt from this; we know who to look for.""

Americans, including infants and children have been raped, murdered, and killed
by probably close to 50,000 illegal aliens a year.
Congress DOES NOT CARE. Never did. Never will.
You know it. And they KNOW you know it.


23 posted on 02/21/2009 5:56:55 AM PST by Diogenesis (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: exist
Except for the destroying America thing— this whole Obama as President episode is kind of funny.

Truism du jour!...and to elaborate in my way of thinking:

Except for the destroying America thing— this whole Obama as President Carteresque episode is kind of funny. Seems Iran will hold Obama hostage for as long as they held Carter Hostage! We need another Reagan, but I'd be satisfied with a Teddy Roosevelt.

24 posted on 02/21/2009 6:53:23 AM PST by CRBDeuce (here, while the internet is still free of the Fairness Doctrine)
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To: CRBDeuce

I think a Franco would be in order.


25 posted on 02/21/2009 7:41:01 AM PST by Yorlik803 ( Freedom- 07-04-1776-11-06-2008. RIP)
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To: Cindy
There are good reasons to believe that when captured he was en route to the United States to kill Americans. Before the Obama administration agrees to send him to Britain, it should have that firmly in mind.
Oh well ... what's one more opening of our country's vulnerability. Sigh. Good link though and even without a trial I vote: Guilty.
26 posted on 02/21/2009 10:33:49 AM PST by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ;-)
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To: period end of story

What’s really funny is hearing someone like Bill Maher say that Obama is the smartest prez since he could remember.
_____________________
What do you expect from Maher? He’s thrilled to pieces that zer0 and his king kong manbeast beard of a wife aren’t going to church anymore. Maher looks like a albino rat and he is a despicable man.


27 posted on 02/21/2009 11:05:33 AM PST by mojitojoe (None are more hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free.)
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To: exist
Except for the destroying America thing— this whole Obama as President episode is kind of funny.

I've always been fascinated by disaster movies and books. Current favorites are about huge comet and asteroid strikes, Deep Impact (movie) and Lucifer's Hammer (book).

They put the petty doings of Prez O in perspective.

Other fun disaster books are the old When Worlds Collide, No Blade of Grass and The Ragged Edge, and a movie now more pertinent, Red Dawn.

28 posted on 02/21/2009 3:38:53 PM PST by patriciaruth (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993905/posts)
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To: Stonewall Jackson

My bet is the guy claims some disability from his “torture” and he will get a fat British government disability benefit check every month. He will probably retire from his jihadi ways and hang out at the local coffee shop. Now he will be a gitmo “star”. No reason to blow yourself up when you can get some of those 72 virgins on earth...


29 posted on 02/22/2009 6:49:26 AM PST by lodi90
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To: txnativegop

And the moment Mohamed gets to UK he will vanish”

What is the over/under on how long before they find him acting as a terrorist again?

This is another insult to the Brits—following the return of the Winston Churchill statue.


30 posted on 02/22/2009 11:32:43 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: ridesthemiles

the over/under would about a month maybe two at most.


31 posted on 02/22/2009 11:33:41 AM PST by txnativegop (God Bless America! (NRA-Endowment))
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To: All

February 23, 2009

Note: The following text is a quote:

http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2009/February/09-opa-150.html

United States Transfers Binyam Mohammed to United Kingdom

WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice today announced the transfer to the United Kingdom of Binyam Mohammed, an Ethiopian national and former resident of the United Kingdom who had been held at the Guantanamo detention facility since 2004.

As directed by the Executive Order issued by President Obama on January 22, 2009, an interagency panel has reviewed Mohammed’s case and determined that his transfer, pursuant to an arrangement between the United States and the United Kingdom, is consistent with the national security and foreign policy interests of the United States and the interests of justice.

“The friendship and assistance of the international community is vitally important as we work to close Guantanamo, and we greatly appreciate the efforts of the British government to work with us on the transfer of Binyam Mohammed,” said Attorney General Eric Holder.

Mohammed is the first Guantanamo detainee to be transferred under the review of all Guantanamo detainees directed by the President. He departed Guantanamo aboard a United Kingdom aircraft Sunday night and arrived in the United Kingdom today.

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09-150


32 posted on 02/24/2009 12:34:10 AM PST by Cindy
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JIHAD WATCH.org (KUWAIT NEWS AGENCY, February 23, 2009): "UK FOREIGN SECRETARY PRAISES OBAMA FOR THE RELEASE OF MAN CHARGED WITH MAKING DIRTY BOMBS IN KABUL" (February 24, 2009)

33 posted on 02/24/2009 1:39:27 AM PST by Cindy
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