"Whitman addressed a query from a reporter citing news reports that a former Guantanamo detainee had apparently become an associate leader for al-Qaida in Yemen.
Guantanamo inmates’ cases are reviewed annually, Whitman said, to ascertain whether or not they qualify for release. However, he said, there’s no guarantee released individuals won’t return to terrorism.
“You can’t have absolute certainly,” Whitman acknowledged."
ZEE NEWS.com - India Edition: Washington - "RELEASED GUANTANAMO DETAINEE NEW YEMEN AL QAEDA COMMANDER" (SNIPPET: "...Said Ali al-Shihri, who was jailed at Guantanamo for six years after his capture in Pakistan, has resurfaced as a leader of a Yemeni branch of al-Qaeda." SNIPPET: "That announcement, which carried the video post of al-Shihri, also included a second video of a second militant who identified himself as Abu al-Hareth Muhammad al-Oufi and claimed he had also been a Guantanamo captive, later released.") (January 24, 2009)
WASHINGTON TIMES.com - exclusive: "OBAMA TO CLOSE TERRORIST 'BLACK SITES'" by Sara A. Carter and Eli Lake (SNIPPET: "President Obama on Thursday will order the closure of so-called black sites, where CIA and European security services have interrogated terrorist suspects, under executive orders dismantling much of the Bush admistration's architecture for the war on terror, according to four individuals familiar with a draft executive order.") (January 21, 2009)
FOX NEWS.com: "MURTHA SAYS HE'D TAKE GUANTANAMO PRISONERS IN HIS DISTRICT" by Chad Pergram (SNIPPET: "But that idea disturbs House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio. "Most communities around America don't want dangerous terrorists imported into their neighborhoods," Boehner said in a statement.") (January 21, 2009)