Fox Breaking News: Libya Attack Done By Released Al-Qaeda Member From GITMO

Fox News | 9/19/2012

[My Favorite Headache]

Breaking Right Now on Fox News

[livius]

Bush released or “transferred” this guy after a lawsuit filed on behalf of Gitmo prisoners...by Eric Holder’s lawfirm.

And the government of Libya with whom the agreement was made has entirely changed since that time, thanks to Obama.

Remarkable, huh?

[kevao]

Bush didn’t “release” Qumu, he transferred him. LIBYA released him.

Bush released him from *our* custody and control. I wonder what made Bush feel he could trust that lying, murdering, untrustworty terrorist Ghadaffi? Maybe he looked into his soul....

[My Favorite Headache]

Any day now surely at the pace of things...

[no-to-illegals]

It would not be the first time we have been lied to about a particular time and date. Am confused at this point.

[kevao]

(1) and (3) suggest they plan to pin the blame for this on Bush. But (2) is puzzling.

[informavoracious]

Well this will help Obama pacify any of his base who are miffed over Gitmo remaining open (if there are any). How conveeeeeenient the slime was released under W. The Blind Sheik will be on Obama’s head.

[Texas Fossil]

Fox web link for article:

Al Qaeda, ex-Gitmo detainee involved in consulate attack, intelligence sources say

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/09/19/top-administration-official-says-strike-in-libya-was-terror-attack/?intcmp=trending

[no-to-illegals]

Not sure exactly what is going on. Waiting on Izzy Dunne for more possible information.

[JediJones]

Don’t insult me or lie about me. Zero’s not my “hero.” You can feel free to support American presidents releasing terrorists to Muslim countries in the hopes they’ll be kept in prison there. I’m not stupid so I don’t support it.

[soycd]

> lying, murdering, untrustworty terrorist Ghadaffi? Maybe he looked into his soul....

Gaddafi was 1000x better than what is running Libya now.

Thanks to barry and shrillary their guy killed Americans.

And that sly “soul” shot may sell at the DUmpster but you knew that anyway.

[DouglasKC]

On the other hand, this really is Bush’s fault, since it happened in 2007. BHO was opposed to shutting down Gitmo and said so many times./s

But Obama was surely President elect...I'm betting that the President elect has a great amount of influence over a lame duck President..

[italianquaker]

Figures and what did our fearless leader do or know?

[Texas Fossil]

Sufyan Ben Qumu (whose name has also been transliterated as Sofiane Ibrahim Gammu) was transferred from US custody to Libya in 2007. Levinson reports that Qumu, who was imprisoned in Libya after his transfer from Guantanamo, was released by Qaddafi's regime as part of its reconciliation effort with Islamists in 2008. However, press reports from August 2010 indicate that he was released last year.

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2011/04/ex-gitmo_detainee_tr.php#ixzz26xhITt7H

[Eleutheria5]

In 2007? I don’t Obama had it in the bag that early.

[kevao]

Gaddafi was 1000x better than what is running Libya now.

Oh, yeah? Well, keeping the bastard *in GITMO* would have been 1,000,000x better than handing him over to Gaddafi for safekeeping, no matter how much you love Gaffafi.

[InterceptPoint]

This is just too rich.

[Bringbackthedraft]

” The State Department is FULL of progressives/Communists. No joke.”........................................ 30years?? It goes farther back than that, Joe McCarthy knew it in the 50’s. It actually goes back to FDR and the early 30’s.

[DouglasKC]

In 2007? I don’t Obama had it in the bag that early.

Ooops..my bad. Never mind, was a year off in my estimating...carry on!

[tapatio]

In addition to Mr. Qumu, local residents say the Darnah Brigade is led by Abdul-Hakim al-Hasadi, another Libyan thought to be a militant who was in Afghanistan during the Taliban’s rule, when Al Qaeda had training camps there. Mr. Qumu did not turn up for a promised interview last week, but Mr. Hasadi did, in crumpled fatigues with a light beard and a lazy left eye, perpetually half-closed. He denied that Mr. Qumu was in his group, recently renamed the Martyrs of Abu Salim Brigade, after a prison in Tripoli where 1,200 inmates were slaughtered in 1996. Two of Mr. Qumu’s sons are in his brigade, he said. “I don’t know how to convince everyone that we are not Al Qaeda here,” Mr. Hasadi said. “Our aim is to topple Qaddafi,” he added. “I know that you will never believe me, but it is true.” For now, Western observers in Benghazi, the temporary rebel capital 180 miles from here, seem content to accept those assurances. “We’re more worried about Al Qaeda infiltration from outside than the indigenous ones” one said. “Most of them have a local agenda so they don’t present as much as a threat to the West.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/25/world/guantanamo-files-libyan-detainee-now-us-ally-of-sorts.html

[marron]

I do seem to remember that the courts were ordering Bush to release prisoners. So he was looking for places to send them in response to court orders. Don’t know for sure if that includes Qumu but it makes sense.

The Dems of course were demanding that we close Gitmo, right up until the moment they were in the White House. I do remember also that Holder’s claim to fame among others is the fact that his firm was behind the lawsuits forcing release of the prisoners. He brought a bunch of the lawyers who worked on the project with him into the Justice Department too. Again, I wonder when we trace it back if we’ll find that Qumu was one of the ones Holder got released.

Of course, old news reports show that Qumu was one of the guys leading O’s overthrow of Khadaffi, so thats interesting. In any case, these guys would never have been released in the numbers they were had it not been for court pressure to do so.