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SAN'A, Yemen — Yemen released 170 men it had arrested on suspicion of having ties to Al Qaeda, security officials said Sunday, two weeks after the terror group announced that Yemen had become the base of its activities for the whole Arabian peninsula. In the past, such releases have raised concern in the United States and increased its reluctance to release Yemeni detainees from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. Yemen has said it expects most of the 100 remaining Yemenis at Guantanamo to be sent home after President Barack Obama ordered the prison shut within a year.

Saudi suspects seeking to revive Al Qaeda - includes 11 who attended Saudi rehab after release from Guantanamo Bay Saudi Arabia issued the list ...They include 11 who have been released from the US prison at Guantanamo Bay and have attended the kingdom's touted extremist rehabilitation program. Saudi suspects seeking to revive Al Qaeda - includes 11 who attended Saudi rehab after release from Guantanamo Bay Khaleej Times - 08 February, 2009 www.gulfinthemedia.com/index.php?id=456220&news_type=Top&lang=en One of the men on the Saudi Arabia's new most-wanted list is married to Osama bin Laden's daughter while another was involved in a plot to kill...

Former Vice President Dick Cheney’s warnings about the risks of closing Guantanamo Bay prison and changing other Bush-era policies this week angered Democrats and some top counter-terrorism experts, who said Cheney was reviving the same scare tactics voters had rejected in electing Barack Obama. Cheney made his comments in an interview this week with Politico in which he unyieldingly defended the detention facility and coercive interrogations of terrorism suspects — and warned that changing course would invite another mass-casualty terror attack potentially worse than the ones on Sept. 11. Many experts, even those who disagree sharply on most issues with...

President Obama has had, by general consent, a torrid First Fortnight. To put it another way, it has taken precisely two weeks for the illusion that brought him to power to be exposed for the nonsense that it so obviously was. The transformational candidate who was going to sweep away pork-barrel politics, lobbyists and corruption has been up to his neck in sleaze, as eviscerated here by Charles Krauthammer. Despite the fact that he came to power promising to ‘ban all earmarks’, his ‘stimulus’ bill represents billions of dollars of special-interest tax breaks, giveaways and protections -- which have nothing...

President Obama assured relatives and victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and the bombing of the USS Cole that he is keeping an open mind about how to handle the approximately 245 detainees held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, according to participants in an hour-long meeting yesterday at the White House. The president met with about 40 family members and victims, who hold different views on his decision to close the prison in Cuba within a year. The exchange, which was sometimes passionate but never acrimonious, left some who were deeply skeptical of the administration's decision...

Amazingly, President Bush said he wanted to close it. Now President Obama has signed an executive order to close it. Both are wrong. We should keep the detention center at Guantanamo Bay open. I have been to Gitmo to visit with the U.S. Marines running what is an essential institution for the security of a free world. The Marines with whom I spoke told me they would never turn their backs on any of the dangerous terrorpunks held there. Job No. 1 of the president is to keep the United States safe. These religious psychos, barbarians, killers and terrorists held...

We received notice from Move America Forward of an add campaign launching next week on Tuesday. Below if the notice in full, video included. The ad is 36 seconds long and will be aired nation wide. Contact your political representatives and demand Guantanamo Bay remain open for the sake of our National Security. Thanks. “Please take a look at the ad linked below. As you probably already know, President Obama has signed an executive order to close Guantanamo Bay. He has no plan, and his order will seriously endanger American lives by making it easier for terrorists to regain their...

OTTAWA -- The federal government has "no knowledge" that a Canadian took part in the 2002 torture and interrogation of a suspected terrorist in Morocco, Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon said Friday. The lawyer for Binyam Mohamed, a British national who was arrested in Pakistan and is now at the U.S. detention camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, says his client refused to talk to his American interrogators before a woman calling herself "Sarah the Canadian" stepped in. Mohamed's diary says the woman told him the Americans were getting ready to torture him if he didn't co-operate. The woman -- whom...

Ex-President, Others In White House Wanted To Close Prison But Cheney Wanted "Status Quo"(CBS) During his final years in office, President Bush said repeatedly he wanted to close the prison at Guantanamo where suspected terrorists were being held indefinitely without trial. It turns out it was his own vice president who stood in the wayIn 2005, then Pentagon official Matthew Waxman was part of an unsuccessful attempt to close Guantanamo. "The vice president was among those who were generally determined to stick to the status quo," Waxman said. Now that President Obama has ordered it closed, Cheney has denounced the...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6, 2009 – Charges against an accused terrorist being held at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, were dismissed yesterday by the judge who oversees the military commissions system, Defense Department officials said. Susan J. Crawford, the convening authority for military commissions at Guantanamo, yesterday dismissed the government’s charges against Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri in accordance with President Barack Obama’s order to temporarily halt activities there, Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell told the Pentagon Channel today. However, Nashiri isn’t going anywhere, Morrell pointed out. The suspected al-Qaida operative, he said, will remain confined at Guantanamo and...

Move America Forward has a Petition at their website that can be signed to help the Government know that it is a dangerous and bad idea to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base.Click on the link "Petition" to sign it.MAF is also holding a press conference on Tuesday in D.C., with 9/11 families, Gold Stars Family Members and others to condemn Obama's plans to close Gitmo.

If the Guantanamo prison base is shut down, critics say, some military combatants currently held there will be sent back to their home countries — where they will rejoin terrorist groups and ultimately kill Americans. It's already happened. A New York woman was killed in a terrorist attack at the U.S. Embassy in Sana, Yemen, in September. And U.S. counterterrorism officials have now confirmed that Said Ali al-Shihri, 35, who was released from the Guantanamo Bay prison center in 2007, is the deputy leader of Al Qaeda in that Mideast country and is a suspect in the attack. State Department...

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama, preparing Friday to meet with families of terror victims, is concerned that Guantanamo Bay detainees have been held for years without trial. Obama wants to close the detention center in Cuba, and has signed an executive order to do so within a year. He has invited relatives of Americans killed in the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000 and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks the next year to the White House for a meeting Friday afternoon. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs says Obama will discuss his plans for Guantanamo Bay with the terror victims'...

More calm than I would be.

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama, preparing Friday to meet with families of terror victims, is concerned that Guantanamo Bay detainees have been held for years without trial.

~ EXCERPT ~ >>> snip <<< Gary Swenchonis, a Texas resident whose son, Gary Jr., was killed in the Cole bombing, told FOX News he turned down an invitation from the White House to meet with Obama. Swenchonis said he received the invitation Thursday, and that he did not care to travel from Texas to Washington on such short notice to hear the "bad news" that charges were withdrawn in the al-Nashiri case. Swenchonis and his wife Deborah wrote a letter to Obama last week expressing their concerns about the halting of military trials at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility....

“Very disappointed” is how the former USS Cole commander put it–twice–that pursuant to Pres. Obama’s order, charges have been dropped against a presumed al Qaeda member suspected of plotting the attack on the Cole that killed 17 American sailors. “Very disappointed.” That’s one way to politely put it. Morning Joe scored an exclusive today with the poised but clearly frustrated Navy Cmdr. Kirk Lippold (ret.), who was the commander of the Cole when al Qaeda attacked it in 2000. Mika Brzezinski did her best to make the case for the administration’s actions, but the commander clearly wasn’t buying. Cmdr. Lippold,...

Look for a terrorist coming to your hometown. ( This is one reason why 0 is calling the 9-11 and Cole victims in the White House for a conference) http://www.thebulletin.us/articles/2009/02/06/top_stories/doc498ba98f533e3500457349.txt

Breaking News from ABCNEWS.com: Charges Withdrawn Against Alleged U.S.S. Cole Bombing Mastermind [7:59 pm ET]

ABC News has learned that on Friday, President Obama will likely order the Department of Defense's Military Commission to withdraw charges against terrorist suspect Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri. The charges may later be reinstated in a military commission or pursued in a civilian court. Al-Nashiri will remain in custody. The announcement will not be made until after President Obama meets with the families of victims of terrorist attacks on 9/11 and on the U.S.S. Cole, where he will assure them that this step is not being done to be lenient towards al-Nashiri. The move is being done to stop the continued...