Posted on 11/16/2015 6:51:16 AM PST by SeekAndFind
There are times I think Obama does this sort of thing because he knows we'll go ballistic.
Late Sunday night (!), the Pentagon announced that 5 Guantanamo detainees were being transferred to the United Arab Emirates. This, despite the fact that today, the president will sign the Defense Reauthorization Act, which contains specific language that would restrict such transfers.
The Pentagon announced Sunday evening that it has transferred five Guantánamo detainees to the United Arab Emirates, just ahead of President Obama signing a defense bill that would place restrictions on moving prisoners from the facility.
"The United States is grateful to the Government of the United Arab Emirates for its willingness to support ongoing U.S. efforts to close the Guantánamo Bay detention facility," said Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook.
"The United States coordinated with the Government of the United Arab Emirates to ensure these transfers took place consistent with appropriate security and humane treatment measures."
The transferred detainees are Ali Ahmad Muhammad al-Razihi, Khalid Abd-al-Jabbar Muhammad Uthman al-Qadasi, Adil Said al-Hajj Ubayd al-Busays, Sulayman Awad Bin Uqayl al-Nahdi and Fahmi Salem Said al-Asani.
The five men are Yemenis who had been held for more than a decade at the detention facility, with ages ranging from 38 to 46, according to the Washington Post.
The release brings the total detainee population at the detention facility in Cuba down to 107, approaching the White House's goal of reaching 100 by the end of the year.
It also comes before Obama signs the 2016 National Defense Authorization Act, which will make it harder to transfer the detainees.
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Obama is the best recruiter ISIS ever had.
Within ten minutes of OTrauma leaving office, he will go public as a radical Islamic.
B@$t@rd!
Have no fear. He just admitted (I heard it live) that “every few weeks” he meets with his entire national security team.
Returning to the USA as Syrian refugees in 5, 4, 3, 2, ....
How many Jihadis are still at Gitmo at this point? Sometime last year, some official noted that pretty much everyone left there was the “worst of the worst”, i.e. the real killers and high-level leadership cadre. Now, just as the Hijra is in full swing, those “worst of the worst” are being filtered back into the ME, where there is so much chaos and uncertainty that there is virtually nothing to stop them from disappearing into the next “refugee” stream.
Brilliant.
11 minutes after leaving office, Pres Trump should order his SS protection to consist of one SS agent who was picked to fill some quota.
Rebuilding the bench.
Directly contrary to law.
The Terrorist in Chief strikes again.
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