Obama reaffirms Guantanamo Bay prison closure plans (Obama claim Al-Qaeda formed because of GITMO)

BBC ^ | 1/5/2010 | BBC

[tobyhill]

US President Barack Obama has said a Yemen-linked plot to bomb an airliner will not prevent the closure of the US prison at Guantanamo Bay.

The US has suspended the repatriation of Yemeni prisoners held there in the wake of the plot, claimed by a Yemen-based al-Qaeda offshoot.

Nearly half of those remaining at the detention centre at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are from Yemen.

Mr Obama originally set a January 22 deadline to close the prison camp.

But he admitted last November that that deadline had slipped to later in 2010.

Officials fear that Yemenis released from Guantanamo and sent back to Yemen could rejoin militant groups.

"Make no mistake, we will close Guantanamo prison, which has damaged our national security interests and become a tremendous recruiting tool for al-Qaeda," he said.

"In fact, that was an explicit rationale for the formation of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula."

[neodad]

Epic FAIL!

[Eagles6]

This ass gets worse by the minute.

[freekitty]

Can you believe the whoppers this guy comes up with?

[wac3rd]

Dem talking point
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(See Rahmbo, O’Dummy, Axelretard, Fwank, Incompetano, Fibbs...)

[pissant]

Obama’s getting confused. Gitmo was the reason HE joined Al Qaeda. Osama and Co. had been around for at least a decade prior.

[misterrob]

Ask the dead sailors from the USS Cole what they think of that.... YAHOLE

[Logical me]

What? King Obama thinks because of Gitmo that al-Qaeda formed. What planet is this as@ from. Is he really that dumb? Ignorant as@. If anything the fear of being incarcerated in Gitmo probably put second thoughts in some of the terrorists.

[celtic gal]

Would that we could imprison 0bama and his family and all his henchmen and women in GITMO...minus the perks of organic diet, special rugs and prayer books...etc

[tobyhill]

He actually said it in his press conference.

[italianquaker]

This and the system worked are on par with each other

[lowbridge]

bump

[kabar]

"Make no mistake, we will close Guantanamo prison, which has damaged our national security interests and become a tremendous recruiting tool for al-Qaeda," he said.

"In fact, that was an explicit rationale for the formation of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula."

The 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in Aden harbor; the 1998 bombings of our embassies in East Africa that killed or wounded over 5,000 people, and bin Laden's 1996 fatwa, "Declaration of War against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Places." give the lie to this ridiculous assertion.

[tobyhill]

and all before GITMO was used to house terrorist.

[RJL]

Obama reaffirms Guantanamo Bay prison closure plans (Obama claim Al-Qaeda formed because of GITMO)

Obama's lesson will be that a weak American President enables and encourages Al-Qaeda beyond anything he can imagine.

Sadly, American people will pay their lives for Obama's coming education.

[wbarmy]

And AL Qaeda bombed the World Trade Center because Bush invaded Iraq and deposed Saddam Hussein. Really.....

[comps4spice]

Obama must be the absolute dumbest person to ever be POTUS.

[ContraryMary]

Does anyone know when the prison at Gitmo was first opened?

[Mila]

"Does anyone know when the prison at Gitmo was first opened?"

2002

[okie01]

"Make no mistake, we will close Guantanamo prison, which has damaged our national security interests and become a tremendous recruiting tool for al-Qaeda," he said.

"In fact, that was an explicit rationale for the formation of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula."

Ahah! So it was Gitmo that caused 9/11. Not 9/11 that caused Gitmo.

Wait a minute...