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Qatar broke promise with US, allowed Gitmo detainee to leave the country
jihad watch ^ | 12/14/14 | Robert Spencer

Posted on 12/14/2014 4:33:49 PM PST by Nachum

Relying on allies that aren’t allies is yet another consequence of the Washington establishment’s determined refusal to face the realities of the jihad, and to formulate policy based on those realities.

“Qatar ‘broke promise to US over Guantanamo detainee,'” by David Blair, the Telegraph, December 12, 2014 (thanks to Lookmann):

Qatar broke an “explicit” promise by allowing a former Guantánamo detainee who had trained with al-Qaeda to leave the country and visit Britain, a new report has found.

Jarallah al-Marri, who attended an al-Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan before the terrorist attacks on September 11, was freed from Guantánamo in 2008.

Mr Marri was allowed to go home to Qatar in return for a formal promise from the government of the Gulf state that he would not be allowed to leave the country. But a report from the Foundation for the Defence of Democracies in Washington said this pledge was broken.

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TOPICS: Egypt; Israel; News/Current Events; Syria; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; alqaeda; egypt; gitmo; guantanamo; iran; iraq; israel; jarallahalmarri; lebanon; qatar; saudiarabia; syria; unitedkingdom; waronterror
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To: Nachum

I am shocked that they allow gambling at Rick’s!


41 posted on 12/15/2014 5:37:50 AM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: Nachum

‘Doin, what ø likes’


42 posted on 12/15/2014 6:24:27 AM PST by onedoug
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it was a foregone conclusion at the time the guy was released to Qatar, that Qatar would not keep its agreement


43 posted on 12/15/2014 8:58:49 AM PST by Wuli
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To: Nachum

Impossible. What about Arab honor?/s


44 posted on 12/15/2014 3:11:24 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Nachum

Well maybe Obama will warm up a couple of Drones and dispatch them... he has discovered that he is very good at killing /s and again an unnecessary /s

TT


45 posted on 12/15/2014 4:43:48 PM PST by TexasTransplant (Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
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