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Released Guantanamo Detainee Now al-Qaeda Leader in Yemen; Will Media Cover
Newsbusters ^ | Decem ber 9, 2015 | Curtis Houck

Posted on 12/10/2015 12:04:53 AM PST by grundle

According to a Wednesday night post on the website Long War Journal by Thomas Joscelyn, a former detainee held at Guantanamo Bay named Ibrahim Qosi has rejoined the world of Islamic terrorism and ascended to a leadership post in al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) following his release in July 2012.

With this shocking story coming as the Obama administration still hopes to close the prison, the question going forward from a media standpoint is this: Will the media show any interest in this threat to national security and failure on the part of the adminstration?

According to Joscelyn, Qoosi (who also goes by Sheikh Khubayb al Sudani) "plead guilty to charges of conspiracy and material support for terrorism before a military commission” back in 2010 but “was transferred to his home country of Sudan two years later, in July 2012."

Not surprisingly, he went onto join AQAP in 2014 and appeared in a propaganda video with other members recalling their lives as radical Islamic extremists (as he began waging jihad in Afghanistan in 1990).

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1 posted on 12/10/2015 12:04:53 AM PST by grundle
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To: grundle

Why is this not surprising?


2 posted on 12/10/2015 12:13:22 AM PST by doug from upland (Some of you keep telling yourself -- Romney would have been as bad or worse.)
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To: grundle

When are we going to try Obama and his advisors (re Gitmo releases and closing), for “TREASON” as in “aiding and abetting the enemy in a time of war”?

WHEN?

Hey Donald: Here’s your next campaign issue. Do it right and you will win.


3 posted on 12/10/2015 12:37:03 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: grundle

This weekend, when Obama reads about this after buying a Sunday Newspaper, Oh, will he get so mad!! He may even draw another Red Line!


4 posted on 12/10/2015 12:40:02 AM PST by lee martell
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To: grundle

They will if Trump makes a stink bomb of it.


5 posted on 12/10/2015 12:43:29 AM PST by aquila48
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To: doug from upland

And there’s more where he came from:

ABU DHABI // Five prisoners released from Guantanamo Bay to the UAE will not be placed under 24-hour supervision but will have to report regularly to police.

http://www.thenational.ae/uae/yemeni-guantanamo-detainees-to-be-put-under-observation-in-uae

Since they are from Yemen, it’s just a hop skip and jump across Oman to get there from the UAE. I was at the border a couple of weeks ago and “Checkpoint Charlie” it ain’t.


6 posted on 12/10/2015 1:52:35 AM PST by Shark24
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To: grundle
Will the media show any interest in this threat to national security and failure on the part of the adminstration?

ROTFLMAO

7 posted on 12/10/2015 1:55:30 AM PST by immadashell (The inmates are running the asylum)
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To: grundle

Obama aiding and abetting the enemy, so what’s new!


8 posted on 12/10/2015 3:00:26 AM PST by ImNotLying
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To: ImNotLying

Did odumbo fly him there in Air Force one? Nothing would surprise me.


9 posted on 12/10/2015 4:23:37 AM PST by DaveA37
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To: grundle

What took him so long?


10 posted on 12/10/2015 5:41:40 AM PST by jch10 (Hillary in the Big House, not the White House .)
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