Posted on 12/31/2009 12:38:28 PM PST by NormsRevenge
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – As a prisoner at Guantanamo, Said Ali al-Shihri said he wanted freedom so he could go home to Saudi Arabia and work at his family's furniture store.
Instead, al-Shihri, who was released in 2007 under the Bush administration, is now deputy leader of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, a group that has claimed responsibility for the Christmas Day attempted bomb attack on a Detroit-bound airliner.
His potential involvement in the terrorist plot has raised new opposition to releasing Guantanamo Bay inmates, complicating President Barack Obama's pledge to close the military prison in Cuba. It also highlights the challenge of identifying the hard-core militants as the administration decides what to do with the remaining 198 prisoners.
Like other former Guantanamo detainees who have rejoined al-Qaida in Yemen, al-Shihri, 36, won his release despite jihadist credentials such as, in his case, urban warfare training in Afghanistan.
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Our government is run by morons, regardless of party in power.
USS Cole suspect charges dropped
The U.S. government has dropped charges for now against the Saudi man it accuses of masterminding the 2000 suicide bombing of the USS Cole, which killed 17 American sailors as the ship sat at the dock in Yemen.
with that headline, I knew it would have to be Bush’s fault, within the 1st few sentences.
I notice they want to blame Bush, it is under Obama that this happend!
If he would have just had one more week of art therapy back in 2007 he would have not rejoined the ranks of the terrorists.
Obama’s actions re terror ought to be worth a couple negative points in this week’s poll numbers.
If the MSM were not covering his tracks, Obama would be -50 now.
But it was MSM that got Obama elected so they will cover up for his incompetence until Nov 2012
Thanks Zerobama.
I believe at one time, we thought Osama was actually in Yemen...maybe after Bora Bora. Remember something with ships??
Bush lacked teh balls to order their trials and executions. For that I’ll never forgive him.
The answer to all this is quite simple: Take no prisoners. No muzz prisoners = no muzz prisoners to release = no former muzz prisoners to stir up sh!t.
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