Posted on 03/07/2022 5:59:21 PM PST by KingofZion
The Biden administration on Monday repatriated to Saudi Arabia for mental health care a prisoner who had been tortured so badly by U.S. interrogators that he was ruled ineligible for trial as the suspected would-be 20th hijacker in the Sept. 11 attacks.
The prisoner, Mohammed al-Qahtani, in his 40s, is the second to be transferred from the wartime prison under the administration.
*** His long-serving lawyer, Shayana Kadidal of the Center for Constitutional Rights, said the transfer was long overdue.
“For 14 years I’ve sat across from Mohammed as he talks to nonexistent people in the room and makes eye contact with the walls — something that’s been a constant part of his life since his teens,” Mr. Kadidal said. “It’s an extraordinary relief that the next time the voices in his head tell him to swallow a mouthful of broken glass, he’ll be in a psychiatric facility, not a prison.”
*** Mr. Qahtani’s notoriety is linked to his attempt to enter the United States on Aug. 4, 2001, when an immigration inspector at the airport in Orlando, Fla., turned him away. U.S. authorities later discovered that he was to be met there by Mohamed Atta, a ringleader of the attacks that were carried out by 19 hijackers and killed nearly 3,000 people in four almost simultaneous hijackings the next month.
Mr. Qahtani found his way to Afghanistan and was captured along the Pakistani border in late 2001. At Guantánamo, the U.S. military isolated him while nude, disoriented and sleep-deprived in a wooden hut at Camp X-Ray in late 2002 and early 2003, and questioned him brutally and relentlessly. A senior Bush administration official later concluded that the torture made him ineligible for prosecution *** MORE
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Why are they alive?
The piece of muzz filth should have been fed to the sharks at Gitmo.
Should be fed to pigs instead. Pigs are Non-Halal.
Shouldn’t Brandon be undergoing mental health treatment? Must have been a foul up in the paperwork, right?
Yea, riiiiight.
Drop him off from a C 130. With a slightly torn parachute.
He’ll be back to jihad in no time.
Biden trades terrorist for oil.
If by mental health care, Biden means oil salesman, then yes that makes perfect sense.
Even better !
“he talks to nonexistent people in the room and makes eye contact with the walls — something that’s been a constant part of his life since his teens”
*****
Are we not supposed to do that?
Treason!
Of course, the FBI didn't need him any more.
They replaced him with several January 6th Protestors.
IOWs he was a mental case long before he was "tortured."
It's nice of the NY Times to always side with terrorist scum against the U.S.
Joe needs Saudi oil why not send him home to Saudi Arabia.
Awww, guy is a poor little nutcase they say, couldnt hurt a flea, and after being after being forced to listen to Barney the Purple Dinosaur sing the “I love you” song, needs rest and rehab. Yet the poor little nutcase was able to find his way onto an international flight days before 9/11 and later navigated his way to Afghanistan. This is very peculiar, in that Nancy Pelosi and the Dems have been wanting to have all the bleeding heart cases revealed so they can expose interrogators and beat on the US, and this makes me wonder why these same Dems have long wanted to send this guy back home as quietly as possible. Why?
He will be welcomed back as a hero, and the traitors that released him in the USA will be lionized.
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