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Men believed behind airplane plot were freed from Gitmo
Chicago Breaking News ^ | 12/28/2009 | Chicago Breaking News

Posted on 12/28/2009 12:33:05 PM PST by Velveeta

Edited on 12/28/2009 12:54:43 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

Two of the four leaders allegedly behind the al Qaeda plot to blow up a Northwest Airlines passenger jet over Detroit were released by the U.S. from the Guantanamo prison in November, 2007, ABC News is reporting, quoting American officials and citing Department of Defense documents.


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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; art; arttherapy; detainees; flight253; gitmo; tm; wot; zeroscrewedthepooch
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To: Velveeta

typo fix: Our hands ARE tied.


61 posted on 12/28/2009 12:46:11 PM PST by floriduh voter (Thanks, Dutch Guy. Apparently, you are U.S. Homeland Security.)
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To: PGR88
These scum should have never made it to Gitmo alive.

Right !

62 posted on 12/28/2009 12:46:30 PM PST by RightField (A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.)
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To: Scythian


Here is one of the paintings they did. It's called. "My vacation in America ..."
63 posted on 12/28/2009 12:47:25 PM PST by Scythian
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To: KeatsforFirstDog
I don't believe this story for one bit. I believe the obozo loving lamestream media is covering up for obozo lack of love for Americans, my bet is not true!
64 posted on 12/28/2009 12:47:56 PM PST by FreeperFlirt
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To: KeatsforFirstDog
Sigh - now they are going to blame Bush...

And for the first time, they'd be right...

65 posted on 12/28/2009 12:48:26 PM PST by Sloth (Civil disobedience? I'm afraid only the uncivil kind is going to cut it this time.)
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To: Velveeta

Is it time yet Claire?


66 posted on 12/28/2009 12:48:48 PM PST by Sir Gawain
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To: Velveeta

ART!!! Therapy???!! Since when does Islam have art anyway? The last time I checked (1996?) - representational art was forbidden. I got interested when I saw the intricate geometric designs in formerly-muslim Spain.


67 posted on 12/28/2009 12:49:56 PM PST by nina0113
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To: maggief
Who knew what terrorist's dad knew and when did they know it?

What US agencies failed to act? They keep blaming "the list, the list". That's not a good enough answer.

Someone big dropped the ball.

I wouldn't fly on New Year's Eve or New Year's Day or demand a flight on a different day. This isn't over imo. It's just begun.

68 posted on 12/28/2009 12:50:24 PM PST by floriduh voter (Thanks, Dutch Guy. Apparently, you are U.S. Homeland Security.)
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To: Velveeta
Meanwhile, I heard on an ABC news brief at the top of the hour (10:00AM?) that the current guy being held has a court-appointed defense lawyer who is blocking federal officials from taking DNA.

Is this what we want to happen to the others if Obama moves them from Gitmo for federal trials in New York?

-PJ

69 posted on 12/28/2009 12:50:40 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ("Comprehensive" reform bills only end up as incomprehensible messes.)
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To: Lazamataz

I don’t believe a word of this.
I really don’t.
***************

I agree.

This is pure wag the tail, bull-excrement.


70 posted on 12/28/2009 12:51:03 PM PST by Canedawg (FUBO)
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To: luvEastTenn
Let me guess. The “art therapy” is redesigning the landscape below a downed jet?

Despite the seriousness of this, I just cannot stop laughing... art therapy? For real? If this is how we fight a war imagine what we're going to get with healthcare... We are soooo screwed as a country.

71 posted on 12/28/2009 12:51:18 PM PST by Wyatt's Torch (I can explain it to you. I can't understand it for you.)
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To: RightField

However, I like Mark Steyn subbing for Rush.


72 posted on 12/28/2009 12:51:33 PM PST by floriduh voter (Thanks, Dutch Guy. Apparently, you are U.S. Homeland Security.)
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To: Velveeta

Correction..it was an AARP therapy rehabilitation program to get them ready for universal health care.


73 posted on 12/28/2009 12:51:38 PM PST by COUNTrecount (Barry...above his poi grade.)
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To: livius

I thought Islam forbids making images of anything but the abstract. Therefore, I could make a painting of what is a building blowing up, and you would think it was a flower.


74 posted on 12/28/2009 12:52:06 PM PST by huldah1776
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To: livius
More from the ABC article:

"The so-called rehabilitation programs are a joke," a US diplomat said in describing the Saudi efforts with released Guantanamo detainees...

"One program gives the former detainees paints and crayons as part of the rehabilitation regimen.

"A similar rehabilitation program in Yemen was stopped because so many of the detainees quickly joined with al Qaeda or its affiliates, the official said."

75 posted on 12/28/2009 12:52:18 PM PST by earlJam
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Yemen Captures Al Qaeda Commander, a Former Guantanamo Detainee

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

SAN’A, Yemen — A former Saudi Guantanamo Bay detainee who later went to Yemen to become an Al Qaeda field commander has surrendered and was handed over to Saudi authorities on Tuesday, Yemen’s Interior Ministry said.

Abu al-Hareth Muhammad al-Awfi was one of two Saudi ex-Guantanamo detainees who re-emerged as Al Qaeda operatives last month in a militant video released a day after President Barack Obama signed an executive order directing the closure of the prison at the U.S. naval base in Cuba within a year. Saudi Arabia also named al-Awfi on a recently released list of 85 most-wanted men who had fled abroad.

“He handed himself over the Yemeni authorities in the province of Shabwah, and Yemeni security authorities handed him over to the Saudi authorities,” a statement from the Yemeni Interior Ministry said.

Al-Awfi, who was released from Guantanamo in 2007, said in the video he went to Yemen after completing the Saudi government’s rehabilitation program for former Guantanamo inmates and other militants.

Saudi government officials confirmed he surrendered and was handed over to Saudi authorities in order to contact his family and return to his former rehabilitation center, according to the official Saudi Press Agency.

Sheik Mohammed al-Nujaimi, who helps run the Saudi rehabilitation program, said al-Awfi had contacted the program’s headquarters and “expressed a desire to surrender and return to Saudi Arabia.” Arrangements were made for his return, and he returned Tuesday afternoon, he said.

Al-Awfi was detainee number 333 at Guantanamo, and the Pentagon has said number 333 was released from Guantanamo on Nov. 11, 2007. The military had listed his name as Muhamad Attik al-Harbi, but the difference in names has been attributed to the common Arab practice of referring to men by an honorific, like the name of a son. Al-Harbi is a tribal designation.

In the recent video, released in January on Web sites that commonly used by militants, al-Awfi wore a dark cap and camouflage shirt with a leather bandolier of bullets draped over shoulder. He threatened the United States.

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76 posted on 12/28/2009 12:52:19 PM PST by maggief
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To: SlowBoat407

OMG! Now you owe me a new keyboard...coffee spewing from every facial orifice...LOLOL!!


77 posted on 12/28/2009 12:52:22 PM PST by LaybackLenny (Palin-Bachmann Overdrive 2012 - takin' care o' business!)
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To: Sloth

so he released these guys before he released the border patrol guys?


78 posted on 12/28/2009 12:53:03 PM PST by MNDude (The Republican Congress Economy--1995-2007)
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To: Velveeta

Ohhh, I get it!

Obama and syncophants did not want this to get political until they had dug up an angle to link this politically back to Bush.

That is one clever blued-lipped sock puppet team!

But wait!

Who was screaming for the release of those prisoners???!!


79 posted on 12/28/2009 12:53:13 PM PST by Voter62vb
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
Here's some of their art work.
80 posted on 12/28/2009 12:53:17 PM PST by wolfcreek (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsd7DGqVSIc)
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