Posted on 01/20/2009 2:48:21 AM PST by Cindy
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) - Plans to close Guantanamo are not sitting well with the Sept. 11 victims' relatives who sat stunned while two alleged terrorists declared they were proud of their role in the plot.
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stepping back in time...
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Review_of_Detention_Policy_Options/
THE BRIEFING ROOM
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 at 12:00 am
Review of Detention Policy Options
EXECUTIVE ORDER — REVIEW OF DETENTION POLICY OPTIONS
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, in order to develop policies for the detention, trial, transfer, release, or other disposition of individuals captured or apprehended in connection with armed conflicts and counterterrorism operations that are consistent with the national security and foreign policy interests of the United States and the interests of justice, I hereby order as follows:
Section 1. Special Interagency Task Force on Detainee Disposition.
(a) Establishment of Special Interagency Task Force. There shall be established a Special Task Force on Detainee Disposition (Special Task Force) to identify lawful options for the disposition of individuals captured or apprehended in connection with armed conflicts and counterterrorism operations.
(b) Membership. The Special Task Force shall consist of the following members, or their designees:
(i) the Attorney General, who shall serve as Co-Chair;
(ii) the Secretary of Defense, who shall serve as Co-Chair;
(iii) the Secretary of State;
(iv) the Secretary of Homeland Security;
(v) the Director of National Intelligence;
(vi) the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency;
(vii) the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and
(viii) other officers or full-time or permanent part-time employees of the United States, as determined by either of the Co-Chairs, with the concurrence of the head of the department or agency concerned.
(c) Staff. Either Co-Chair may designate officers and employees within their respective departments to serve as staff to support the Special Task Force. At the request of the Co-Chairs, officers and employees from other departments or agencies may serve on the Special Task Force with the concurrence of the heads of the departments or agencies that employ such individuals. Such staff
must be officers or full-time or permanent part-time employees of the United States. The Co-Chairs shall jointly select an officer or employee of the Department of Justice or Department of Defense to serve as the Executive Secretary of the Special Task Force.
(d) Operation. The Co-Chairs shall convene meetings of the Special Task Force, determine its agenda, and direct its work. The Co-Chairs may establish and direct subgroups of the Special Task Force, consisting exclusively of members of the Special Task Force, to deal with particular subjects.
(e) Mission. The mission of the Special Task Force shall be to conduct a comprehensive review of the lawful options available to the Federal Government with respect to the apprehension, detention, trial, transfer, release, or other disposition of individuals captured or apprehended in connection with armed conflicts and counterterrorism operations, and to identify such options as are consistent with the national security and foreign policy interests of the United States and the interests of justice.
(f) Administration. The Special Task Force shall be established for administrative purposes within the Department of Justice, and the Department of Justice shall, to the extent permitted by law and subject to the availability of appropriations, provide administrative support and funding for the Special Task Force.
(g) Report. The Special Task Force shall provide a report to the President, through the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and the Counsel to the President, on the matters set forth in subsection (d) within 180 days of the date of this order unless the Co-Chairs determine that an extension is necessary, and shall provide periodic preliminary reports during those 180 days.
(h) Termination. The Co-Chairs shall terminate the Special Task Force upon the completion of its duties.
Sec. 2. General Provisions.
(a) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.
(b) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
BARACK OBAMA
THE WHITE HOUSE,
January 22, 2009.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/026538.php
(WALL STREET JOURNAL)
June 11, 2009
“Four Gitmo detainees settled in Bermuda”
June 12, 2009
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United States Transfers Three Guantanamo Detainees to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Three Saudi nationals were transferred today from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia under appropriate security measures.
All individuals transferred to Saudi Arabia are subject to judicial review in Saudi Arabia before they undergo a rehabilitation program. While in a rehabilitation program, they will be under the control of the Saudi Government. The U.S. and Saudi Governments are working closely together on all matters related to the transfer of Saudi detainees from Guantanamo to Saudi Arabia.
As directed by the President’s Jan. 22, 2009, Executive Order, the interagency Guantanamo Review Task Force conducted a comprehensive review of the cases involving Khalid Saad Mohammed, Abdalaziz Kareem Salim Al Noofayaee and Ahmed Zaid Salim Zuhair. As a result of that review, these detainees were approved for transfer from Guantanamo Bay. Each of these detainees was previously cleared for transfer by the prior Administration. The transfers were carried out pursuant to an arrangement between the United States and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
“With these latest transfers, the U.S. Government has moved nine detainees over the course of this week to locations in Bermuda, Chad, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia. This marks the largest number of transfers in a single week in well over a year and occurred, in large part, due to the willingness of foreign governments to work closely with the United States on this important issue and to assist in the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. We are grateful for the cooperation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and for its assistance on the successful transfer of the three individuals today,” said Matthew Olsen, Executive Director of the Guantanamo Review Task Force.
Since 2002, more than 540 detainees have departed Guantanamo for other countries including Albania, Algeria, Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, Bahrain, Belgium, Bermuda, Chad, Denmark, Egypt, France, Great Britain, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Maldives, Mauritania, Morocco, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Sweden, Sudan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Uganda, United Kingdom and Yemen.
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President Releases Terrorists - Ignores American Public, Congress In Release Of Uighurs
Thu, 06/11/2009 - 16:06
Washington, DC – Kirk S. Lippold, Former USS Cole Commander and Senior Military Fellow at Military Families United, released the following statement regarding the release of four Chinese Muslims from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility to Bermuda without trial. The four members of the Uighur ethnic group were captured on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border and were trained at the al-Qaeda affiliated East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM) Tora Bora camp. Military Families United has released a policy briefing on the Uighurs. To read the briefing via the MFU website, Click Here
“Today’s release of the Chinese Uighurs ignores the will of the America people and Congress, which have been clear in their opposition to the release of terrorists. Congressional opposition to releasing these terrorists has been loud and clear and in poll after poll the American people do not want to release the detainees at GITMO and allow them the opportunity to rejoin the fight like so many have previously done.
The Uighurs are members of a terrorist organization according to our own Departments of Homeland Security and Treasury. They should not be freed without trial in Bermuda or anywhere else. The 4 released today were among 17 Uighurs trained at a terrorists’ camp in Afghanistan. Their relocation was rejected by several countries because of the threat they pose. Our world is more dangerous today because of the President’s actions. Justice was not served and this release continues the Administration’s dismantling of the war on terror.”
About Military Families United
Military Families United serves as the nation’s premier military family advocacy organization, representing Gold and Blue Star families throughout the country and their loved ones who wear, or have worn, our nation’s uniform. Military Families United was founded in the summer of 2008 as a not-for-profit, non-partisan 501c4 policy advocacy organization committed to supporting America’s troops and their families. We fight to ensure that the sacrifices of these families are not in vain by giving them a voice in Washington, D.C and state governments throughout the country. Military Families United engages Members of Congress, the Administration, and the general public in efforts to communicate the truth about our brave men and women in uniform and their mission to protect our freedom that cost many of them their lives.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271777/posts
Guantánamo Uighurs hope to open restaurant in millionaires’ paradise
Times Online ^
Posted on June 14, 2009 4:52:06 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Guantánamo Uighurs hope to open restaurant in millionaires’ paradise
James Bone in Hamilton Parish, Bermuda
For seven long years in Guantánamo Bay prison camp in Cuba, the four Central Asian friends gazed longingly at the azure sea from their cells. They were never allowed through the razor wire to paddle in the water.
Now, suddenly set free in Bermuda, the former terror suspects can watch the ocean at leisure from the pastel-pink clifftop holiday cottage where they are staying at US taxpayers’ expense.
They have already taken a sunset swim and caught a fish at their first attempt at fishing. They have also reverted to their real names after using pseudonyms since leaving China.
The four fled to Afghanistan to escape political oppression in the poverty-stricken Xinjiang province of western China and then escaped from US bombing to the tribal regions of Pakistan, before being taken to Guantánamo. Now they are at leisure to marvel at the natural splendour of Britain’s oldest colony.
“This is the first time I have seen such a beautiful place,” Abdullah Abdulqadir, 30, said. “Our feelings are incredible. We did not think we were going to be this happy.”
The four former Guantánamo inmates — members of China’s Muslim Turkic-speaking Uighur minority — are dreaming of opening the first Uighur restaurant, serving noodles and lamb in the millionaires’ playground. “Uighur food is delicious. These kind and generous people of Bermuda, we want to do something for them. Of course, we want to have a Uighur restaurant,” Mr Abdulqadir said.
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Gitmo Terrorists Released in Bermuda w/ U.S. Taxpayer Funded Resort Lifestyle
Flopping Aces ^ | 06-15-09 | Mike’s America
Posted on June 15, 2009 8:22:49 PM PDT by Starman417
Compare their story to that of John McCain as a prisoner of war who WAS tortured!
“It Don’t Gitmo Better Than This!”
Four of the Uighur terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay have been released in Bermuda. All expenses paid by the U.S. taxpayer.
Life in paradise as Guantanamo Four take a dip, eat ice cream, and plan first Uighur restaurant in British territory of Bermuda The Daily Mail 15th June 2009
...[The four men] have traded drab prison jumpsuits for comfortable cotton pants and knit shirts, and razor wire-encircled jail compounds for beach cottages, where they are staying at U.S. taxpayers’ expense.
The four Uighurs (pronounced WEE’-gurs) also have immediate priorities, such as learning to drive, scuba dive and bowl, said Glenn Brangman, a former military official who is helping reintroduce them to the world outside prison.
For now, the men are savouring the most basic of experiences, interpreter Rushan Abbas said. They walked through a forest, touched trees and plants and expressed their amazement at a woman riding a horse.
New life: Three of the four former Guantanamo detainees, Ablakim Turahun, Salahidin Abdulahat, and Khelil Mamut (left to right) take a stroll in the historic district of St. George, on the island of Bermuda
They look pretty healthy to me considering how they just got out of what some people falsely claim is a torture chamber.
Constrast their appearance with that of John McCain after he was released from a North Vietnamese prison camp where he WAS tortured:
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U.S. gives half of the Lackawanna Six a fresh start
BUFFALO NEWS ^ | Updated: 06/13/09 07:11 AM | Lou Michael
Posted on June 16, 2009 12:19:33 AM PDT by Cindy
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FOCUS:TERRORISM
SNIPPET: “Faysal H. Galab, the first to take a plea deal, received the shortest sentence, seven years, and is now out of federal custody and living in the Detroit area under his own name.
Shafal A. Mosed is out of prison and in a federal halfway house in Rochester working as a day laborer. He plans to move back to Lackawanna and rejoin his wife and child in September, according to members of the Yemenite community in Lackawanna.
His brother, who refused to speak about Mosed’s upcoming return, pointed out that Galab has managed to succeed in quietly moving on with his life.
Mukhtar al-Bakri, the only member of the Lackawanna Six still incarcerated at a highly secure special unit at the federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind., is not expected to be released until early 2011.”
SNIPPET: “When the six were arrested on the one-year anniversary of 9/11, they found themselves at the center of the Bush administration’s domestic efforts to fight terrorism. The result was a storm of unwanted national attention on the Yemenite community in Lackawanna.”
SNIPPET: “But times have changed and now the government, barring the unforeseen, will end up launching Alwan, Goba and Taher into new lives when they re-enter society either later this year or next year.”
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Response to DOJ ‘Fact Sheet’ (Prosecuting/Detaining Terrorists in U.S. Criminal Justice System
911FamiliesForAmerica.org ^ | June 16, 2009 | Debra Burlingame
Posted on June 16, 2009 1:41:32 PM PDT by Sergeant Tim
In Washington today and tomorrow, the DOJ’s Office of Justice for Victims of Overseas Terrorism (OVT) is briefing American family members of those murdered by terrorists, as well as those injured during terrorist attacks. The stated purpose of the briefing is to:
...[offer] those interested the opportunity to meet task force members, hear an overview of task force work, and express views about the policy questions the Detention Policy Task Force is studying. Please click on the link for the Detention Policy Task Force to see some of the questions that the task force is considering. ... For those unable to attend the meetings, but still interested in expressing views, we welcome written submissions. Please send your written comments via email (nsd.ovt@usdoj.gov) or fax (202-514-4275) to OVT by June 19, 2009.
In advance of the briefings, the Department of Justice issued a press release on June 9, 2009 that is posted below (in black). A response from 9/11 Families for a Safe & Strong America is interjected in red and blue.
Department of Justice Press Release Tuesday, June 9, 2009 Fact Sheet: Prosecuting and Detaining Terror Suspects in the U.S. Criminal Justice System
I. Terror Prosecutions in the Southern District of New York Since the 1990s, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) has investigated and successfully prosecuted a wide range of international and domestic terrorism cases — including the bombings of the World Trade Center and U.S. Embassies in East Africa in the 1990s. FACT: From 1993, starting with the first World Trade Center bombing, to the attack on the USS Cole in 2000, Al Qaeda killed 265 people and injured another 5,496. In the same period, a total of 29 people were convicted in major terrorism trials, only a handful of which were high-level operatives. Many of those responsible for the deaths of Americans and others were never apprehended. Those who were tried received platinum due process. And yet, 9/11 occurred. 3,000 more deaths in one day. The criminal justice system is not designed to protect American citizens from future terrorist attacks by covert, militant wahhabi organizations operating in global networks, carrying out martyrdom operations, with assistance from foreign states (Sudan, Saudia Arabia, Syria, Iran, Somalia, former Iraqi regime) and like-minded terrorists organizations (Hamas, Hezbollah). These are not street criminals who plague individuals. These are committed jihadists who pose an existential threat to the United States. When captured, Al Qaeda members are dedicated to continuing jihad, whether through propaganda or physical assaults on their captors. They are proud of their crimes, and are not interested in American justice. They are interested in undermining American justice. They are war criminals. Criminal indictments issuing from U.S. federal grand juries in the 1990s did not stop Osama Bin Laden or make the world a safer place.
Major Historical Cases in SDNY: 1993 World Trade Center Bombing: After two trials, in 1993 and 1997, six defendants were convicted and sentenced principally to life in prison for detonating a truck bomb in the garage of the World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring hundreds more. One of the defendants convicted at the second trial was Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the attack.
1994-95 Manila Air Plot: Ramzi Yousef and two others were convicted in 1996 for plotting to plant bombs aboard a dozen U.S. commercial aircraft that were timed to go off as the planes were flying over the Pacific. The defendants were sentenced to substantial prison terms. Yousef concocted the plan with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is currently detained at Guantanamo Bay and has been indicted in SDNY for the Manila Air conspiracy since 1996.
1995 “Blind Sheikh” Trial: Ten defendants associated with a mosque in Brooklyn, N.Y., were convicted of plotting to blow up the World Trade Center, United Nations headquarters, and various bridges, tunnels and landmarks in and around New York City. The lead defendant, Omar Abdel Rahman, also known as the “Blind Sheikh,” was sentenced to life in prison, while his co-defendants were sentenced to prison terms ranging between life and 25 years.
Bin Laden Indictment and Embassy Bombings Trial: Shortly after the August 1998 bombings of the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, SDNY indicted Usama Bin Laden and approximately 20 alleged al-Qaeda loyalists for conspiring to murder Americans worldwide. Many of the defendants were also charged for their roles in the attacks on the U.S. Embassies in East Africa, including three defendants who were convicted after a six-month trial in early 2001. Those three defendants, and a fourth al-Qaeda member who was tried with them, were all sentenced to life in prison.
FACT: The conspicuous absence, after nearly nine years, of any USS COLE prosecutions. The imminent trial of ABD AL-RAHIM AL-NASHIRI under the Military Commissions Act was suspended by President Obama.
FACT: The total number of convictions in major terrorism cases in federal court, after hundreds of millions of dollars in litigation costs, from 1993 to 2001, was 29 people, most of whom held small roles in the larger conspiracies. In fact, some of those who participated in the bombings were never apprehended or tried. There was virtually no intelligence value to these prosecutions. Indeed, due to federal discovery rules, sensitive classified information deemed “material to the defense,”was ordered by the presiding judge to be handed over by prosecutors. In the Rahman “Blind Sheikh” case, a list of 200 un-indicted co-conspirators was given to the defense and in Osama Bin Laden’s hands within days. This told Al Qaeda who was known to U.S. law enforcement authorities, and who was not. See, former SDNY prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy, “The Intelligence Mess: How the Courts Forced Me to Give Osama Bin Laden Sensitive Information,” Wall Street Journal, Sept. 20, 2006
FACT: The federal rules for handling classified evidence in criminal trials continues to be a problem for prosecutors. The Classified Information Procedures Act (CIPA) was written to prevent defendants in espionage cases from engaging in “graymail,” threatening to reveal classified evidence in open court in order to pressure the government to drop charges. Prosecutors were faced with the choice of “disclosing or dismissing.” The current problem involves terrorism defendants who use discovery rules to force the government to disclose classified information which can be conveyed to their confederates. Disclosure of classified evidence, e.g. sources, methods, names of infiltrators, strains relationships with foreign intelligences services who want their counterterrorism operations and cooperation with the U.S. to remain secret..
Recent Cases in SDNY:
James Cromitie et al.: On May 20, 2009, four individuals — James Cromitie, David Williams, Onta Williams and Laguerre Payen — were arrested on charges arising from a plot to detonate explosives near a synagogue in the Bronx, N.Y., and to shoot Stinger surface-to-air guided missiles at military planes located at a the National Guard Base at Stewart Airport in Newburgh, N.Y. On June 2, 2009, all four defendants were charged in an eight-count indictment and face potential life in prison, if convicted.* All are legal US residents apprehended in NY. FACT: Domestic case. No enemy combatants captured under laws of war. Reports indicate that these defendants are U.S. citizens who were prison converts to radical Islam.
Oussama Kassir: On May 12, 2009, Oussama Kassir was convicted of charges related to his participation in an effort to establish a jihad training camp in Oregon and his operation of several terrorist Web sites containing instructions about how to make bombs and poisons. Kassir was found guilty of all 11 charges against him, including providing material support to al-Qaeda and distributing information on explosives and weapons of mass destruction. FACT: Domestic “material support” case. Not an enemy combatant captured under laws of war.
Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse: On April 21, 2009, accused Somalian pirate Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse was transported to the SDNY to face criminal charges stemming from his alleged participation in the April 8, 2009, hijacking of the Maersk Alabama container ship in the Indian Ocean. Muse is charged in a 10-count indictment and faces a mandatory life sentence, if convicted.* FACT: This is not a terrorism case. MUSE has been charged with piracy of a commercial ship, hostage-taking, and kidnapping. He is not an enemy combatant captured under laws of war.
U.S. v. Viktor Bout: On April 9, 2008, international arms dealer Viktor Bout was arrested by Thai authorities on a provisional arrest warrant based on an SDNY complaint, which charged conspiracy to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization. Bout was later indicted for, among other things, conspiring to sell millions of dollars worth of weapons to the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) to be used to kill Americans in Colombia. Bout has been in custody in Thailand since March 6, 2008, pending an extradition request by the United States.* FACT: Material support case. Not an enemy combatant captured under laws of war.
Monzer al Kassar et. al.: On Nov. 20, 2008, international arms trafficker Monzer al Kassar and a co-defendant were convicted after a three-week jury trial of all charges — including conspiracy to murder U.S. nationals; conspiracy to murder U.S. officers; conspiracy to acquire and export anti-aircraft missiles; and conspiracy to provide material support and resources to the FARC, a designated foreign terrorist organization — for conspiring to sell millions of dollars worth of high-powered weapons to the FARC to be used to kill Americans in Colombia. Al Kassar, who had been extradited on these charges from Spain, and the co-defendant, who had been extradited from Romania (the first ever to the United States on terrorism charges), were sentenced to 30 and 25 years in prison, respectively. Another co-defendant, who was also extradited from Romania, was found guilty on similar charges, and awaits sentencing. FACT: Neither of these defendants were post-9/11 battlefield captures involving law of warfare detentions. AL KASSAR was a drug trafficker, money-launderer and arms dealer wanted all over the world for more than 20 years. He was arrested in Spain and extradited to the U.S. in 2007.
II. Terror Prosecutions Nationwide Nationwide, the Justice Department and its U.S. Attorney’s offices have prosecuted many terrorism cases in recent months and years . Last year, Human Rights First published a comprehensive study on prosecuting terrorism in federal court from 9/11 through the end of 2007. The study, entitled: “In Pursuit of Justice: Prosecuting Terrorism Cases in the Federal Court,” found that federal prosecutors achieved a conviction rate of more than 90 percent in the set of terrorism cases examined by the report’s authors. The study examined a specific set of 257 defendants charged with terrorism related violations in the United States between 9/11 and the end of 2007. Of the 160 defendants from this group who had their cases resolved, 145 were convicted of at least one count, either by a verdict of guilty after trial or by a guilty plea. FACT: None of the cases in the study involved battlefield captures involving interrogations for “battlefield intelligence” and law of warfare detentions. They were all straight criminal cases which did not involve US military operations. Most were domestic “material support” cases, i.e. facilitators (funders, helpers).
Recent Cases: Since Jan. 1, 2009, more than 30 individuals charged with terrorism violations have been successfully prosecuted and/or sentenced in federal courts nationwide, including the following: Five Sentenced in Terror Finance Case: (Northern District of Texas) – On May 27, 2009, five leaders of the Holy Land Foundation, once the largest Muslim charity in the United States, were sentenced for their role in funneling more than $12 million to the Hamas terror organization. Shukri Abu Baker and Ghassan Elashi were each sentenced to 65 years in prison. Mufid Abdulqader was sentenced to 20 years in prison, while Mohammed El Mezain and Abdulrahman Odeh were each sentenced to 15 years in prison. FACT: Domestic “material support” case. Not an enemy combatant case.
Mohammed Warsame: (District of Minnesota) – On May 20, 2009, Mohammed Warsame pleaded guilty to conspiracy to provide material support to al-Qaeda, admitting that he attended al-Qaeda training camps, sent money from Canada to one of his former training camp commanders and continued to exchange messages with individuals associated with al-Qaeda once in Minnesota. FACT: Domestic “material support” case. Not an enemy combatant case.
Ali al-Marri: (Central District of Illinois) – On April 30, 2009, Ali al-Marri pleaded guilty to conspiracy to provide material support to al-Qaeda, admitting that he attended terrorist training camps, learned al-Qaeda tradecraft and was dispatched by al-Qaeda to carry out its terrorist objectives in America. FACT: This is a domestic case ( a “sleeper agent” arrested in Peoria, Ill), not an overseas detention, but it sheds light on how the Justice Department will treat hard-core terrorists going forward. The AL-MARRI case was touted by AG Eric Holder as a conviction which “reflects what we can achieve when we have faith in our criminal justice system.” Here’s what we achieved: AL-MARRI was a trained explosives expert sent by KHALID SHEIKH MOHAMMED to launch chemical bomb attacks in the U.S. He was given $10,000 by 9/11 financier MUSTAFA AL-HAWSAWI and told to arrive in the U.S. “before September 10, 2001.” AL-MARRI was allowed to plead guilty to only one count of “material support”— a charge reserved for non-violent facilitators—and will be allowed to argue that he should be sentenced to TIME SERVED. The most he can be sentenced in this plea agreement is 15 years. AL-MARRI made preparations to kill hundreds of people. This case will be correctly viewed by Al QAEDA as a sign of a weak American justice system. See April 30, 2009 DOJ Press Release
Five Sentenced in Fort Dix Terror Plot: (District of New Jersey) – On April 28, 29, 2009, five individuals — Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer, brothers Dritan Duka, Shain Duka and Eljvir Duka and Serdar Tatar — received sentences ranging from 33 years in prison, to life in prison plus 30 years, for plotting to kill U.S. soldiers in an armed attack on the military base in Fort Dix, New Jersey. All five individuals were convicted at trial in December 2008. FACT: Domestic case. Not enemy combatants captured overseas in theater of war.
Seven Plead Guilty in MEK Terror Case: (Central District of California) – On April 28, 2009, seven individuals – Roya Rahmani, Alireza Mohammadmoradi, Moustafa Ahmady, Hossein Afshari, Hassan Rezaie, Navid Taj and Mohammad Omidvar — who were engaged in fundraising activities on behalf of the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK), a designated foreign terrorist organization, pleaded guilty to federal charges of providing material support to terrorists. FACT: Domestic case. Not enemy combatants captured in theater of war.
Wesam al-Delaema: (District of Columbia) — On April 16, 2009, Wesam al-Delaema was sentenced to 25 years in prison for conspiring to murder Americans overseas, including by planting roadside bombs targeting U.S. soldiers in Iraq and by demonstrating on video how these explosives would be detonated to destroy American vehicles. He pleaded guilty on Feb. 25, 2009. FACT: AL-DELAEMA is a Dutch citizen arrested in the Netherlands and extradited to the U.S. Not an enemy combatant captured in theater of war. See February 26, 2009 DOJ Press Release. NOTE: AL-DELAEMA was also convicted of assault; in 2007 he beat a prison guard unconscious.
Christopher Paul: (Southern District of Ohio) — On Feb. 26, 2009, Christopher Paul was sentenced to 20 years in prison for conspiring to use explosives against targets in Europe and the United States. Paul joined al-Qaeda in the early 1990s, fought in Afghanistan and Bosnia and conspired with others to target Americans both at home and abroad. FACT: FACT: Domestic case. Not an enemy combatant captured in theater of war.
Four Plead Guilty in LTTE Prosecution: (Eastern District of New York) — On Jan. 27, 2009, four defendants — Thiruthanikan Thanigasalam, Sahilal Sabaratnam, Sathajhan Sarachandran and Yogarasa Nadarasa — pleaded guilty to terrorism violations in connection with their efforts to acquire surface-to-air missiles, missile launchers and hundreds of assault rifles for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a designated terrorist organization. FACT: Domestic case. Not an enemy combatant captured in theater of war.
Two Plead Guilty in Plot to Murder U.S. Soldiers: (Northern District of Ohio) — On Jan. 15, 2009, Zubair Ahmed and Khaleel Ahmed pleaded guilty to conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists in connection with their efforts to travel abroad in order to murder or maim U.S. military forces in Iraq or Afghanistan. FACT: Domestic case. Not an enemy combatant captured in theater of war.
III. Detaining Terror Inmates in Federal Prisons
International Terror Inmates There are currently 216 inmates in Bureau of Prisons (BOP) custody who have a history of/or nexus to international terrorism. Sixty seven of these individuals were extradited to the United States for prosecution, while 149 were not extradited. Seventy two of these individuals are U.S. citizens (45 of them born in the United States, 27 of them naturalized). The “Supermax” facility in Florence, Colo. (ADX Florence), which is BOP’s most secure facility, houses 33 of these international terrorists. There has never been an escape from ADX Florence, and BOP has housed some of these international terrorists since the early 1990s. In addition to the ADX Florence, the BOP houses such individuals in the Communications Management Units at Terre Haute, Ind., and Marion, Ill., as well as in other facilities among different institutions around the country.
Among those convicted international terrorists currently serving sentences in BOP facilities are:
• Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, convicted of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing
• Ramzi Yousef, convicted of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing
• Ahmed Ressam, the Millenium Bomber
• Wadih el-Hage, convicted of the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in Africa
• Richard Reid, convicted of attempting to ignite a shoe bomb while on a flight from Paris to Miami carrying 184 passengers and 14 crewmembers
• Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, convicted of plotting to assassinate the U.S. President as well as attack and destroy civilian airliners
• Zacarias Moussaoui, convicted of conspiring with al-Qaeda to hijack and crash planes into prominent U.S. buildings as part of the 9/11 attacks.
FACT: The Moussaoui case did not result in an adversarial trial to determine guilt. Moussaoui pled guilty to six counts of conspiracy. There was no trial on the merits.
Domestic Terror Inmates
In addition to those inmates with an international terrorism history or nexus, there are approximately 139 individuals in BOP custody who have a history of/or nexus to domestic terrorism. These individuals include:
• Theodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber
• Terry Nichols, convicted accomplice of Timothy McVeigh in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing
FACT: These two individuals do not present the same national security issues of militant wahhabi-based terrorism. Most notably, neither individual was associated with global terrorist networks, martyrdom operations involving mass casualties or was sponsored by foreign states and like-minded terrorists organizations.
Special Administrative Measures Under the law, the Attorney General may direct the BOP to initiate Special Administrative Measures (SAMs) with respect to a particular inmate (including those being held pre-trial or during trial) when there is a substantial risk that a prisoner’s communications or contacts with persons could result in death or serious bodily injury to persons, or substantial damage to property that would entail the risk of death or serious bodily injury to persons. Generally, these measures can be initiated to prevent acts of terrorism, acts of violence, or the disclosure of classified information. SAMs are specific to a particular inmate. The special administrative measures may include housing the inmate in administrative detention and/or limiting certain privileges, including, but not limited to, correspondence, visiting, and other communications, as is reasonably necessary to protect persons against the risk of acts of violence or terrorism, while still maintaining the inmate’s attorney/client privilege. The SAMs authorization automatically expires after one year, unless renewed or vacated.
• As of May 22, 2009, there were 44 inmates subject to SAMs, out of a total federal inmate population of more than 205,000.
Of the 44 inmates subject to SAMs, 29 were incarcerated on terrorism-related charges, while 11 were incarcerated on violent crime-related charges (gangs, organized crime, etc.), and four were incarcerated on espionage charges.
FACT: SAMs did not prevent the “brutal assault” by East African Embassy bombing suspect MAHMOUD MAMDUH SALIM on Corrections Officer Louis Pepe. While awaiting trial in federal court in New York City, SALIM plunged a homemade shiv into Pepe’s in the eye, permanently blinding him. The goal of the attack was to free his co-defendants, take hostages and assault his own attorneys. See May 3, 2004 United States Attorney Southern District of New York Press Release (pdf)
FACT: SAMs do not prevent terrorists from recruiting other members of the prison population to convert to militant Islam. FBI Director Robert Mueller recently testified before Congress that even in high-security federal prisons, terrorists may radicalize others, direct fund-raising for terrorist operations and participate attacks on Americans if released. He compared the problem to drug gangs who are known to run operations from prison. See May 20, 2009 MSNBC new report ‘FBI chief worried about Gitmo detainees in U.S.’
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Slaughter of Foreigners in Yemen Bears Mark of Former Gitmo Detainee, Say Experts
FOX News ^ | June 20, 2009 | Jana Winter
Posted on June 20, 2009 8:34:07 AM PDT by george76
The fate of three of nine foreigners abducted in Yemen last week is known — their bodies were found, shot execution style. The whereabouts of the other six — including three children under the age of 6 — remain a mystery.
But terrorism experts say their abductors and killers are almost certainly not a mystery. They say the crimes bear the mark of Al Qaeda, and they fear they are the handiwork of the international terror organization’s No. 2 man in the Arabian Peninsula: Said Ali al-Shihri, an Islamic extremist who once was in American custody — but who was released from the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
And if al-Shihri is behind the gruesome murders and abductions, they say, it raises grave concerns that the scheduled January 2010 closing of the Guantanamo prison and the release of most of its prisoners to foreign countries will galvanize Al Qaeda and compromise American national security.
The nine foreigners — four German adults, three small German children, a British man and a South Korean woman — were abducted on June 12 after they ventured outside the city of Saada without their required police escorts,
“Christians aren’t allowed to proselytize in the Muslim world, and if that’s what was going on here ... well then, there you go.”
Rep. Peter King (R-NY), Ranking Member on the House Homeland Security Committee, opposes closing Gitmo and says Obama is rushing “helter skelter” to find homes for the remaining detainees to meet his “arbitrary deadline,” which he says may come at the cost of national security.
“The president’s policies are very very disturbing. He appears to have decided to close Guantanamo without any idea of where these detainees are going to go
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Freed by U.S. (former Gitmo detainee), Saudi Becomes a Qaeda Chief
New York Times ^ | Jan. 22, 2009 | ROBERT F. WORTH
Posted on January 22, 2009 8:15:01 PM PST by FocusNexus
The emergence of a former Guantánamo Bay detainee as the deputy leader of Al Qaeda’s Yemeni branch has underscored the potential complications in carrying out the executive order President Obama signed Thursday that the detention center be shut down within a year.
The militant, Said Ali al-Shihri, is suspected of involvement in a deadly bombing of the United States Embassy in Yemen’s capital, Sana, in September. He was released to Saudi Arabia in 2007 and passed through a Saudi rehabilitation program for former jihadists before resurfacing with Al Qaeda in Yemen.
His status was announced in an Internet statement by the militant group and was confirmed by an American counterterrorism official.
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Senior Al Qaeda and Afghan Taliban leaders meet with Baitullah
LONG WAR JOURNAL.org ^ | June 21, 2009, 2:02 am | Bill Roggio
Posted on June 22, 2009 4:50:08 PM PDT by Cindy
Senior al Qaeda and Afghan Taliban leaders are reported to have met with Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud to advise him to move his group’s operations into Afghanistan and halt attacks against the Pakistani state.
Several meetings were said to have been held last week after an 11-man delegation of al Qaeda and Taliban heavy hitters arrived in Waziristan to deliver a request from Mullah Omar, the Amir al Mumineen, or the leader of the faithful in Pakistan and Afghanistan, according to a report in The Nation.
The Taliban dispatched Sirajuddin Haqqani, the powerful military commander of the Haqqani Network, and Abdul Hakeem Sharaee and Mir Ahmad Jan Hashemi, two senior deputies of Mullah Abdullah Zakir, the Taliban’s senior-most military commander in southern Afghanistan who was released from Guantanamo Bay.
Al Qaeda sent Abu Yahya Al Libi, one of al Qaeda’s senior ideologues and a representative of the religious committee, and Abdul Haq Turkistani, the leader of the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Party, an al Qaeda-linked group that is made up of Uighurs who fight the Chinese government. Abdul Haq serves on al Qaeda’s Shura Majlis, or executive council.
The joint Taliban and al Qaeda delegation reportedly advised Baitullah to halt the Pakistani Taliban’s attacks against the military and government and to focus his energy in Afghanistan. The leaders believe Baitullah’s terror attacks against the Pakistani state are putting undue pressure on the Taliban in both Pakistan and Afghanistan and threaten to damage the overall Taliban movement.
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Ex-Guantanamo Prisoner ‘Now a Taliban Leader’
The Herald ^ | 3/12/09
Posted on March 11, 2009 11:47:16 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A FORMER Guantanamo detainee has become the Taleban’s operations officer in southern Afghanistan where he is launching attacks against British and American troops, it was reported last night.
Adbullah Ghulam Rasoul was handed over to the Afghan government in December 2007, which in turn released him. Intelligence officials said he is now known as Mullah Abdullah Zakir and is working as a senior commander.
British officials said they believed Rasoul was behind a rise in road-side bombings against British troops since spring 2008 when he was released from prison in Kabul.
A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Defence said she could not comment on “intelligence matters”.
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Obama’s invisible terror victims: Rights of detained suspects paramount in process
Washington Times ^ | June 22, 2009 | Cmdr Kirk Lippold
Posted on June 22, 2009 12:41:41 PM PDT by Sergeant Tim
[L]ast week, after more delays in the process, the administration called victims of the Cole, Bali and Sept. 11 attacks together again to receive an update about the work of the Detainee Review Task Force. The meeting was emotional and heart-wrenching.
Each person was given the opportunity to speak about the impact the president’s decisions were having on him or her and loved ones. The brave families of our heroes showed true courage in that room. Once again, they had traveled to Washington to express their frustration at seeing justice delayed. If they were truly involved, and the administration were listening, the circumstances below - only amplified by the meeting - simply would not exist. ... The rights of detainees have overshadowed the rights of victims of terrorism. Not once during the meeting did task force members mention that they were taking the rights of victims of terrorism into consideration when deciding what process would ultimately bring these purported terrorists to justice. In a sickening insult to the families, the attorney general had one of his new Justice Department lawyers - Jennifer Daskal, former Gitmo detainee advocate for Human Rights Watch - sit quietly in the room listening to the victims’ stories. [emphasis added mine] It could not be clearer that, to this point, the rights and treatment of detainees rather than of the victims have been of paramount consideration.
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Documents Back Saudi Link to Extremists, but May Never Be Used in 9/11 Suit
Documents gathered by lawyers for the families of Sept. 11 victims provide new evidence of extensive financial support for Al Qaeda and other extremist groups by members of the Saudi royal family, but the material may never find its way into court because of legal and diplomatic obstacles.
The case has put the Obama administration in the middle of a political and legal dispute, with the Justice Department siding with the Saudis in court last month in seeking to kill further legal action. Adding to the intrigue, classified American intelligence documents related to Saudi finances were leaked anonymously to lawyers for the families. The Justice Department had the lawyers’ copies destroyed and now wants to prevent a judge from even looking at the material.....
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/world/middleeast/24saudi.html?ref=nyregion
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923 posted on June 23, 2009 7:08:54 PM PDT by Velveeta
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Saudi Support for the Taliban: Lawyers for the plaintiffs conducted a sworn video deposition in Europe with a Muslim man from Afghanistan who said he had fought against the Taliban in the late 1990s. In the deposition, the man described Saudi support for the Taliban and said that during negotiations about prisoner exchanges and a cease fire in 1998, he had witnessed a Saudi emissary, who he said was sent to Kabul by Turki Al Faisal, the former Saudi intelligence chief, give a check for a billion riyals to a top Taliban leader. The lawyers for the plaintiffs blacked out the name of the witness and other identifying information in the transcript of the deposition because of what they said were concerns about his safety and those around him.
http://documents.nytimes.com/evidence-of-financial-links-between-saudi-royal-family-and-al-qaeda#p=96
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Portugal to take 2 or 3 Guantanamo detainees
Google News ^ | 6/21/09
Posted on June 21, 2009 9:36:59 AM PDT by freespirited
Portugal will take in two or three Guantanamo detainees once they are released by the U.S. detention center, the foreign minister said.
President Barack Obama has pledged to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center by early next year, and has asked European nations to accept some of the camp’s 229 detainees.
The EU, which long argued for the prison’s closure, agreed last week to “turn the page” on Guantanamo, but said it was up to individual EU members to decide whether to take in detainees from the camp. Few have agreed.
The Portuguese government is now working out the legal issues involved in bringing two or three former prisoners to Portugal, Foreign Minister Luis Amado was quoted Sunday as saying by state broadcaster RTP’s Web site.
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Top Defense Lawyer Calls for Military Commissions Reform
By Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, July 7, 2009 – Closing the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and reforming military commissions will enhance national security, the Defense Department’s chief legal advisor said today before Congress.
Echoing President Barack Obama’s recent call to reform the Military Commissions Act of 2006, General Counsel Jeh C. Johnson told the Senate Armed Services Committee that he welcomes the opportunity to help change military commissions into a more viable forum.
“By working to improve military commissions to make the process more fair and credible, we enhance our national security by providing the government with effective alternatives for bringing to justice those international terrorists who violate the laws of war,” Johnson said.
Under the Senate’s recent Defense Authorization Act, several provisions were made to reform the 2006 legislation. Johnson expressed confidence in the ability of the Obama administration and Congress to continue working together to improve the law.
“Military commissions can emerge from this effort as a fully legitimate forum,” he said.
The new legislation proposes changes that ban in-court use of statements obtained by cruel interrogation methods, which Johnson said will “go a long way toward enhancing the legitimacy and credibility of commissions.”
Johnson also addressed the need for a program to monitor detainees even after they are transferred from Guantanamo Bay to accepting nations. He stressed the concern that terrorists and enemy combatants might return to the battlefield.
“It’s not as simple as, ‘Oh X-Y-Z country is willing to take the detainee back,” he said. “There needs to be in place an adequate rehabilitation program to monitor in that accepting nation … [so] that we minimize to the fullest extent possible any acts of recidivism for those who are transferred or released.”
“The safety of the American people is the utmost concern,” he continued. “So we believe strongly that rehabilitation programs are something that we should encourage, promote. It’s something we’re very focused on.”
Navy Vice Adm. Bruce MacDonald, the Navy’s Judge Advocate General, also spoke before the committee and expressed support for military commissions reform and the Defense Authorization Act. The new legislation addresses concerns he had with the enactment of the 2006 law, he said.
“I believe that the [Defense Authorization Act] establishes a balanced framework to provide important rights and protections to an accused while also providing the government with the means of prosecuting alleged alien, unprivileged enemy belligerents,” MacDonald said.
Witnesses, including Johnson and MacDonald, however, asked for certain clarity regarding the new bill.
MacDonald recommended the committee develop a list of considerations to be evaluated in determining the extent in which a statement may be corroborated as well as the overall reliability of the statement.
But overall, MacDonald stressed the importance of having “full faith and confidence that what we’re creating in the military, in this bill, is a fair and just process.”
“It’s absolutely vital that when we leave here at the end of the day, it’s not because we believe that what we’ve created is a second-class legal system,” he said. “You ought to feel very comfortable sending anybody to this commissions process with these changes, because we believe it’s a fair and just system.”
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“Bipartisan Experts Tell Congress to Let Guantanamo Detainees Come to US”
By Jonathan Winer
(July 13, 2009)
July 21, 2009
http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2009/July/09-ag-705.html
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Detention Policy Task Force Issues Preliminary Report
The Department of Justice and Department of Defense today announced that the Detention Policy Task Force, which was created pursuant to Executive Order 13493, has issued a preliminary report on military commissions and a process for the determination of prosecution forum for trials of suspected terrorists. A copy of the report is attached. As authorized by the Executive Order, the Attorney General and Secretary of Defense have also decided to extend by six months the period in which the Task Force will conduct its work and submit a final report.
The Attorney General and Secretary of Defense serve as Co-Chairs of the Detention Policy Task Force and have been represented on the Task Force by their designees. Other Task Force participants include designees of the Secretary of State, Secretary of Homeland Security, the Director of National Intelligence, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
According to the Executive Order, the Task Force’s mission is “to conduct a comprehensive review of the lawful options available to the Federal Government with respect to the apprehension, detention, trial, transfer, release, or other disposition of individuals captured or apprehended in connection with armed conflicts and counterterrorism operations, and to identify such options as are consistent with the national security and foreign policy interests of the United States and the interests of justice.” The Executive Order directs the Detention Policy Task Force to provide a report to the President within 180 days of the date of the Order, (by July 21, 2009), “unless the Co-Chairs determine that an extension is necessary.”
Separately, the Department of Justice today announced that the Special Task Force on Interrogation and Transfer Policies, created pursuant to Executive Order 13491, will have an additional two months to submit its final report to the President. This Task Force is charged with evaluating whether the use of interrogation practices beyond those listed in the Army Field Manual by agencies other than the military provide an appropriate means of acquiring the intelligence necessary to protect the nation. It is also responsible for examining the transfer of individuals to other nations in order to ensure that such individuals are not tortured and that U.S. commitments to ensure the humane treatment of individuals in its custody or control are not undermined or circumvented.
The Detention Policy Task Force and the Special Task Force on Interrogation and Transfer Policies are distinct from the interagency Guantanamo Review Task Force, which was created pursuant to Executive Order 13492. The Guantanamo Review Task Force is conducting a review of the status of all individuals currently detained at Guantanamo Bay and is making recommendations regarding the proper disposition of each in order for the detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay to be closed within one year from the date of the Executive Order.
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“After visit, Forbes says he’s convinced Gitmo shouldn’t close”
The Virginian-Pilot ^ | July 21, 2009 | Bill Sizemore
Posted on July 21, 2009 4:07:23 PM PDT by csvset
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http://michellemalkin.com/2009/07/23/report-supermax-beds-being-cleared-for-gitmo-detainees/
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“Supermax beds being cleared for Gitmo detainees; Sen. Inhofe asks ‘what kind of threat does this present to the American population?’”
by Tim Sumner @ 5:00 pm on July 23, 2009. Filed under Barack Obama, Gitmo, Guantanamo, detainees, indefinite detention
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