Posted on 09/22/2015 3:14:14 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba
The military released one of Guantánamo’s most determined hunger strikers to Saudi Arabia Tuesday, decreasing the prison camp population to 114.
Abdul Rahman Shalabi, 39, once held as a “forever prisoner,” was repatriated less than a week after the United States sent a Moroccan home. Typical of past deals, Saudi Arabia sent a jet to pick him up.
U.S. forces brought Shalabi to the U.S. Navy base in Cuba on Jan. 11, 2002, the day Camp X-Ray opened, and held him as Detainee 42. He has never been charged with a crime at Guantánamo. His transfer leaves seven of those 20 first-day detainees — dubbed “the worst of the worst” — at the prison.
A Pentagon statement said Defense Secretary Ash Carter filed notified Congress in advance of the release.
In January 2010 an Obama administration task force designated him an indefinite detainee — or so-called forever prisoner — considered too dangerous to release but for whom there was insufficient evidence to take to trial. A parole board lifted that designation in June, approving his release in a statement that expressed confidence in the Saudi Kingdom’s rehabilitation program for Islamic extremists.
It also said Shalabi was committed to improving his health condition, suggesting he had perhaps quit his hunger strike. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
I think Germany can take the rest, once they check whether Lufthansa can send a jet.
FROM DAILY MAIL:
The board, which was created by the administration of President Barack Obama in 2011 as part of the effort to close the prison at Guantanamo, did not clear Shalabi of wrongdoing and said it ‘acknowledges the detainee’s past terrorist-related activities.’
Just hang them already, geez.
Let them live in the Capitol building...maybe be the janitors?
Let 0bama serve the remainder of his sentence.
Besides the obvious, allow me to point out he’s now free to chain young boys to his bed.
I vote for ending their culture.
And Obastard will set the rest free before he leaves office.
I will gladly donate 114 rounds of hollow point ammo to solve the problem.
Guantanamo did not free a Saudi, Obama freed a Saudi from Guantanamo.
As in the case of the five Taliban commanders swapped for Private Bergdahl, Obama is trying to clear the detention facility of the worst offenders so there will be less outcry when he turns the minor psychopaths loose.
The timing of this thing was effected so the Pope's arrival in Cuba and the U.S. would distract the news media.
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