Posted on 09/23/2015 8:14:25 AM PDT by gwgn02
The military freed one of Guantánamo's most determined hunger strikers to Saudi Arabia Tuesday, a former "forever prisoner" brought here the day Camp X-Ray opened as a suspected bodyguard of Osama bin Laden.
The release, to a Saudi jet on this base's air strip, left the prison camp population at 114. Now, 52 of the captives are cleared for release to special security agreements with other countries.
Saudi Abdul Rahman Shalabi, 39, was repatriated less than a week after the United States sent a Moroccan home restrained inside a U.S. military cargo plane. The Saudis, however, have a longstanding special arrangement with its ally the United States to fetch their freed captives, sparing them a ride home in shackles.
Shalabi was never charged with a crime at Guantánamo. U.S. forces brought him to this U.S. Navy base on Jan. 11, 2002, the day the Bush administration opened prison operations here, and held him as Detainee 42. His transfer leaves seven of those 20 first-day detainees -- dubbed "the worst of the worst" -- at the prison.
He’ll be given a hero’s welcome.
but but but this marxist isn’t a muslim
He should be freed via a helicopter door at 5000 feet.
Funny how the thread about blood pressure came right after this one...
And reason (I mean, excuse) given by our the Traitor-In-Chief?
Wood chipper, feet first.
Another day, another outrage by this treasonous administration.....[sigh]
Connections count have many of them.
“suspected bodyguard “
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Yeah, but at least he ain’t a Muslim.
That's just the Bizarro world that this country has be plunged into!
How many more criminals will that POS Øbama release before he leaves office?
Good work, Obama.
How can we keep a guy in jail without charges and a trial for 13 years. This is like the Hanoi Hilton escapades, however more humane. He should have been labelled a POW and returned either when zero technically quit Afganistan or when he officially quits, but our nation deserves to have a higher stamdard than LIMBO. We look like weasels as we have behaved in doing this. Like slavery and tolerating the early KKK, it is now our history to reveal alongside everything our hero soldiers have fought and died for, including our great Declaration.
I still like W, but here he erred in not being more open about labelling POWs...EPWs...
Why, it’s almost like all the people that hate the U.S. Are blackmailing Obama.
What could they possibly have on him?
FREE THE BENGHAZI 40!!!!!
The US must need another czar for some agency and this guy fits the bill.
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