Posted on 07/19/2012 1:59:39 PM PDT by Zakeet
Bulgarian media on Thursday named the suicide bomber who blew up a bus full of Israeli tourists, killing five Israelis and a local bus driver, in the Black Sea resort of Burgas on Wednesday as 36-year-old Mehdi Ghezali.
Ghezali reportedly arrived in Bulgaria five weeks before the bombing and arrived at the airport via taxi, Channel 2 reported. He was also reportedly given the bomb by someone else, but no further details were provided.
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Ghezali has a Wikipedia page, which describes him as a Swedish citizen, with Algerian and Finnish origins. He had been held at the US’s Guantanamo Bay detainment camp on Cuba from 2002 to 2004, having previously studied at a Muslim religious school and mosque in Britain, and traveled to Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, it says. He was taken into custody on suspicion of being an al-Qaeda agent, having been arrested along with a number of other al-Qaeda operatives.
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He was also reportedly among 12 foreigners captured trying to cross into Afghanistan in 2009.
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Bath salts.
NOTA
It’s a man-caused disaster.
God’s shaking his head slowly back and froth - looking at Mehdi Ghezali - HE speaks: “Exactly what is is about ‘God’s Chosen People’ that you don’t understand? “
Nobody’s disputing that. But why wasn’t he sent back when they picked him up in Afghanistan in 2009.
I distinctly remember this, because capturing all these people was a big coup for the military, and then Obama basically said to let them go.
When around a thousand Jews tried to escape from Hitler, American Jews did in fact vote for Himmler. There was no jewish voices to speak of to let them into the US, and they were returned to the gas chambers.
They also say they don't know where he is, and that he is a terrorist.
So, WTF didn't they lock him up when he was released into their custody in 2004?
Thanks. I do not remember the history about this guy. I know they had attorneys and would really like to know who represented him.
Lets remember that liberals went crazy screaming against the Bush Administration detention of terrorists at Gitmo, resulting in the release of a lot of these scum. As far as I am concerned any of them that helped get this guy out have the blood of those teenagers on their hands.
Which leads me to observe: Liberalism is not only a mental disorder, it is a dangerous mental disorder.
“Following a lobbying effort by Swedish prime minister Göran Persson, Guantanamo authorities recommended Ghezali be transferred to another country for continued detainment, and he was handed over to Swedish authorities in 2004. The Swedish government did not press charges.”
Jewish blood on their hands. Nothing new for Europe.
It's an overreaction. In Middle Ages a lord and his soldiers could ride into a village, rape and pillage just for fun, and leave tens of dead bodies behind. Examples of such terror are widely known from historical records, and they occurred anywhere from Japan to Europe to Mexico. Life was not just cheap; it was free for taking from the lower classes. Similarly, your own life belonged to your lord; it could be (and sometimes was) taken away from you just because your lord wanted it so, for a reason or without one.
This was, of course, wrong. But the world overreacted, as it always does. Now the life of anyone, be it a genius scientist or an honest worker or a petty criminal or a mass murderer, is equally precious and must not be taken away, ever. As result we have now hordes of criminals running free in the streets of our cities and in deserts of faraway countries. They do their best to kill our citizens but citizens must not kill back (ask GZ about that.) They steal, rob and mug people, and we are supposed to take it and politely ask for more.
IMO, the value of life is not unconditionally high. People are born with a pretty high value of their life; then it depends on their own actions. If you do good and help others you become a valuable citizen; your demise will be a great sorrow. If you are bad and you rob or kill people, the value of your life drops - mathematically, if you wish, by the value that the other person lost. If that value ever reaches zero you forfeited your life at that point. If you are allowed to live longer you are likely to cause more harm to the society then you will do good. Miraculous conversions do happen, but they are not in purview of humans.
It would be interesting to think how such a mathematical system would work out in the society. Some states have three strikes laws which come closer to this principle, but they are too crude. "Life credits" can be also earned, so an accidental crime can be eventually compensated in the eyes of the society. But if you let your life credits run out the next arrest will be fatal. Most repeat offenders will exhaust their credit while still in high school, just like TM did.
It's pretty amazing that the 2000 GOP presidential nomination came down to a choice between McCain and GWB. Talk about slim pickings.
Bush’s fault.
Less relevant when he was a picked up a 2nd time in 2009. That's on Obama.
Bush was walking a tightrope. There is no doubt that there were many actions he was pushed into by the Treason Media and its party. That was the main enemy and still is not Bush.
...heard the same thing after 9/11
I really hope you are right.
Why American Jews vote ‘rat is beyond me.
Thanks
“I’m sure Bush didn’t want to release any of them. But have you forgotten the hysteria stirred up by the left at that point?’
One day, we will all realize what a surpassingly fine, honorable and decent President George W. Bush was. But by then it will be too late.....
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