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  • Civilian terror trials are the violation

    05/04/2010 3:39:55 AM PDT · by Scanian · 2 replies · 231+ views
    NY Post ^ | May 4, 2010 | Editorial
    President Obama's deadline for closing the prison facility at Guantanamo Bay expired 102 days ago, and Attorney General Eric Holder has now admitted that at least 40 detainees will be held indefinitely, without trial. Enough, already: It's time to rescind the order, rule out any civilian trials -- and explain to the world why holding the detainees at Gitmo is the right thing to do under the Law of Armed Conflict (which subsumes what was long known as the Laws of War). Obama and Holder have repeatedly acknowledged that America is "at war," as did Congress by invoking the War...
  • Jam the jihad; a military commission judge should silence KSM's propaganda

    04/27/2010 3:20:11 PM PDT · by Sergeant Tim · 5 replies · 204+ views
    911FamiliesForAmerica.org ^ | March 26, 2010 | Tim Sumner
    Our nation makes selective use of enemy communications. We intercept to gather intelligence and jam to disrupt enemy command and control; these help shape the battlefield and forces the enemy to fight at a disadvantage. Limiting enemy propaganda is a critical aspect of winning the information battle fought during every war. Some, including Michael Daly at the New York Daily News, used the subway bomb plotter's fifteen minutes of fame in Brooklyn's federal court to claim there would be no harm in prosecuting Khalid Sheikh Mohammed the same way, in the same place: Why not put Khalid Shaikh Mohammed on...
  • JIHAD STRAIGHT TO YOUR IPOD? AQAP's Latest Gimmick

    04/21/2010 2:00:34 AM PDT · by Cindy · 4 replies · 347+ views
    JARRET BRACHMAN.net ^ | April 18, 2010 | Jarret Brachman
    SNIPPET: "Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) put out a new audio production through their media outlet, Al-Malahim Media, by way of Al-Fajr, featuring former GTMO detainee, Shaikh Ibrahim al-Rubaysh, who is now a religious authority for AQAP. I’m drawing your attention to this, not because his statement entitled, “How Could You Abandon Jihad?” was that compelling – because it wasn’t (although it was pretty alarmist) – but because of the banner graphic they used featuring a personal audio player. I’ve seen this before but for some reason I was inspired to comment this time. The notion that kids anywhere...
  • Amnesty International and Jihad (Why is a human rights group working with a Taliban supporter?)

    04/16/2010 11:51:20 PM PDT · by Cindy · 2 replies · 340+ views
    Online.WSJ.com - Opinion Europe ^ | APRIL 14, 2010, 5:00 P.M. ET | n/a
    OPINION EUROPE APRIL 14, 2010, 5:00 P.M. ET "Amnesty International and Jihad Why is a human rights group working with a Taliban supporter?" SNIPPET: "Amnesty International defines itself as "a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights for all." So why is the organization working hand-in-glove with one of the Taliban's most notorious defenders? That's a question serious human-rights campaigners are asking themselves in light of Amnesty's curious collaboration with Moazzam Begg. Mr. Begg is a British citizen and former Guantanamo detainee who, following his release in 2005, wrote a memoir and became director of a...
  • CIA says ACLU-backed plan endangered Gitmo officers

    03/31/2010 7:45:35 PM PDT · by Ernest_at_the_Beach · 22 replies · 514+ views
    Washington Times ^ | March 31, 2010, | Bill Gertz
    A team of CIA counterintelligence officials recently visited the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and concluded that CIA interrogators face the risk of exposure to al Qaeda through inmates' contacts with defense attorneys, according to U.S. officials. The agency's "tiger team" of security specialists was dispatched as part of an ongoing investigation conducted jointly with the Justice Department into a program backed by the American Civil Liberties Union. The program, called the John Adams Project, has photographed covert CIA interrogators and shown the pictures to some of the five senior al Qaeda terrorists held there in an effort...
  • Strategists: GOP is peaking too early

    03/31/2010 1:13:24 PM PDT · by ConservativeStatement · 124 replies · 2,442+ views
    Washington Times ^ | March 31, 2010 | Stephen Dinan
    Former President Bill Clinton's top political strategists, who had a front-row seat for the Republicans' 1994 electoral successes, said Wednesday that the GOP today is peaking too early and is unlikely to see a repeat performance this November. Pollster Stan Greenberg said a "change election," as political scientists call major shifts in electoral preferences, already happened when Republican Scott Brown's surprise victory for Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's Senate seat, and between then and November, Democrats will have gained back ground. "When we look back on this, we're going to say Massachusetts is when 1994 happened," Mr. Greenberg said.
  • "Representing Al Queda"

    03/29/2010 8:26:12 AM PDT · by HonestConservative · 4 replies · 338+ views
    National Review On Line/Keep America Safe ^ | March 29, 2010 | Andy McCarthy
    NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE ANDREW C. McCARTHY MARCH 29, 2010 4:00 A.M. ‘Representing’ al-Qaeda Does helping jihadists lie, plot, and identify CIA agents demonstrate patriotism — or material support to terrorism? Bravely entering the lion’s den — delivering a speech in praise of left-wing, “pro bono” lawyering to a group of left-wing, pro bono lawyers — Attorney General Eric Holder recently declared that “lawyers who provide counsel for the unpopular are, and should be, treated as what they are: patriots.”
  • 34th Detainee to be Released on a Habeas petition

    03/27/2010 9:05:56 AM PDT · by Starman417 · 2 replies · 220+ views
    Flopping Aces ^ | 03-27-10 | Wordsmith
    Judge James Robertson: In a two-sentence ruling given on Monday, U.S. District Judge James Robertson granted the habeas corpus petition and thus ordered the release of Mohamedou Salahi, who was arrested in Mauritania in 2001 and has been held as an enemy combatant at Guantánamo Bay for eight years. Robertson said he would explain his decision in a later statement. The 9/11 Commission report describes Salahi, the 34th detainee ordered released on a habeas petition, as a high-level al Qaeda operative who advised three of the 9/11 hijackers when they were living in Germany before the attacks. An internal military...
  • Gitmo Lawyer "Completely Shocked" His Terrorist Client Returned to Terrorism

    03/26/2010 8:48:01 AM PDT · by Sub-Driver · 25 replies · 999+ views
    Gitmo Lawyer "Completely Shocked" His Terrorist Client Returned to Terrorism BY John McCormack March 26, 2010 11:34 AM Newsweek follows up on Tom Joscelyn and Bill Roggio's story on the Gitmo detainee who's returned to the battlefield after being released by the Obama administration: A Guantánamo detainee released last December has now returned to the battlefield to fight with Taliban insurgents, according to three U.S. counterterrorism officials who have reviewed intelligence reports on the matter. If the reports are accurate, the detainee, known as Abdul Hafiz, would be the first Guantánamo inmate released by the Obama administration to have returned...
  • Rand Paul: Shut down Guantanamo Bay

    03/24/2010 8:36:48 PM PDT · by Republican Wildcat · 102 replies · 1,772+ views
    Rand Paul website ^ | May 25, 2009 | Rand Paul 2010
    Chief of the U.S. Military: Shut down Guantanamo Bay Published on 25 May 2009 by admin in General News, In The Media Admiral Mike Mullen stated it simply, “I’d like to see it shut down.” Mullen believes Guantanamo has significantly damaged the reputation of the United States, even going so far as to say (in other articles) that it has been a powerful recruiting tool for Islamic terrorists. Rand couldn’t agree more. Rand believes America can fight terrorism and maintain its moral integrity without resorting to offshore prison camps, “prolonged detention”, and other, highly questionable legal measures. For Rand, national...
  • Former Gitmo detainee targeting Afghan charities (released by Obama)

    03/24/2010 11:13:59 AM PDT · by Free ThinkerNY · 1 replies · 184+ views
    longwarjournal.org ^ | March 24, 2010 | Thomas Joscelyn & Bill Roggio
    A former Guantanamo detainee transferred from the detention facility to Afghanistan on Dec. 19, 2009, has already returned to the Taliban’s ranks, according to multiple intelligence officials contacted by the Long War Journal. The former detainee was identified in documents produced at Guantanamo as Abdul Hafiz (as well as an alternative name, Abdul Qawi) and given an internment serial number of 1030. During the more than six years he was held at Guantanamo, Hafiz was repeatedly identified as “a suspect in the murder of an International Red Cross worker in Afghanistan.” Memos produced at Guantanamo also alleged that Hafiz participated...
  • Thanks Barack, Thanks Eric Holder… Another Gitmo Detainee Returns to the Fold

    03/24/2010 5:27:47 PM PDT · by opentalk · 4 replies · 280+ views
    Gateway Pundit ^ | March 24, 2010 | Jim Hoft
    That didn’t take long. He’s only been free for 3 months. The Long War Journal reported: A former Guantanamo detainee transferred from the detention facility to Afghanistan on Dec. 19, 2009, has already returned to the Taliban’s ranks, according to multiple intelligence officials contacted by the Long War Journal. The former detainee was identified in documents produced at Guantanamo as Abdul Hafiz (as well as an alternative name, Abdul Qawi) and given an internment serial number of 1030. Previously On Released Gitmo Detainees: ** Gitmo Detainees Re-Arrested in Russia ** Former Gitmo Prisoner Arrested for Terrorism in Moscow ** Three...
  • Keep the cell door shut: Appeal a judge's outrageous ruling to free 9/11 thug

    03/24/2010 1:27:25 PM PDT · by Sergeant Tim · 9 replies · 397+ views
    New York Daily News ^ | March 24, 2010 | Editors
    It is shocking and true: A federal judge has ordered the release of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, one of the top recruiters for the 9/11 attacks - a man once deemed the highest-value detainee at Guantanamo Bay. With but a two-sentence ruling, Washington Federal Judge James Robertson has taken the dangerous folly of granting enemy combatants entree into civilian courts to its outrageous, indecent limit. Who's next, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed? So that there is no mistake: Robertson's determination that a terrorist with the blood of 3,000 on his hands deserves life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is not the work...
  • Three Guantanamo inmates transferred to Georgia (Republic)

    03/23/2010 5:14:33 PM PDT · by Hoodat · 6 replies · 288+ views
    Breitbart ^ | 23 Mar 2010 | 02:32 PM US/Eastern
    The United States Tuesday transferred three inmates from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to Georgia, a US official said, leaving 183 prisoners still languishing in the controversial US military jail. State Department spokesman Philip Crowley said the Georgian ministry of interior had announced "that three Guantanamo detainees were transferred to Georgia." It was believed to be the first time that Georgia has accepted to take in Guantanamo detainees. "We are grateful to the government of Georgia for joining their efforts to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay," Crowley added. President Barack Obama has pledged to close the US military base in...
  • "Left-leaning, Liberal, Clintonista" Judge Ordered Release of Gitmo Terrorist

    03/23/2010 2:46:41 AM PDT · by Suvroc10 · 3 replies · 1,487+ views
    Associated Content (AC) ^ | March 23, 2010 | Marc Schenker
    A "left-leaning, liberal, Clintonista" judge with ties to "ultra-liberal" civil rights groups ordered the release of a Gitmo terrorist yesterday. U.S. District Judge James Robertson—in a secretive move that arrogantly disdained transparency—ordered the release of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a Gitmo terrorist who in the 911 Commission report was implicated for recruiting 911 terror attack operatives like Mohammed Atta. In the same report, he was identified as a "significant al Qaeda operative" and was also once called "the highest value detainee!" But now, thanks to Judge Robertson and his liberal ideology that puts terrorists' rights over national security, Slahi will be...
  • Judge orders release of Guantanamo detainee

    03/22/2010 5:22:38 PM PDT · by Free ThinkerNY · 17 replies · 933+ views
    Associated Press ^ | March 22, 2010 | PETE YOST
    WASHINGTON (AP) -- A judge has ordered the release of a Guantanamo Bay detainee described in the 9/11 commission report as a significant al-Qaida operative who provided advice to three of the Sept. 11 hijackers. The ruling in favor of detainee Mohamedou Ould Salahi was disclosed Monday in a two-sentence court entry. U.S. District Judge James Robertson will issue a written decision at a later date explaining his reasons for granting the detainee's petition.
  • Judge Orders Release of Gitmo Detainee Tied to 9-11

    03/22/2010 3:35:51 PM PDT · by Red in Blue PA · 60 replies · 2,110+ views
    Foxnews ^ | 3/22/2010 | Staff
    WASHINGTON — A suspected Al Qaeda organizer once called "the highest value detainee" at Guantanamo Bay was ordered released by a federal judge in an order issued Monday. Mohamedou Ould Slahi was accused in the 9/11 Commission report of helping recruit Mohammed Atta and other members of the Al Qaeda cell in Hamburg, Germany, that took part in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Military prosecutors suspected Slahi of links to other Al Qaeda operations, and considered seeking the death penalty against him while preparing possible charges in 2003 and 2004.
  • Key Gitmo Detainee Ordered Released

    03/22/2010 2:11:28 PM PDT · by tsmith130 · 18 replies · 989+ views
    Wall Street Journal ^ | 3/22/2010 | JESS BRAVIN
    A suspected al Qaeda organizer once called "the highest value detainee" at Guantánamo Bay was ordered released by a federal judge in an order issued Monday. Mohamedou Ould Slahi was accused in the 9/11 Commission report of helping recruit Mohammed Atta and other members of the al Qaeda cell in Hamburg, Germany, that took part in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Military prosecutors suspected Mr. Slahi of links to other al Qaeda operations, and considered seeking the death penalty against him while preparing possible charges in 2003 and 2004.
  • Playing Shell Games and Painting Themselves into a Corner

    03/22/2010 10:14:00 AM PDT · by Starman417 · 258+ views
    Flopping Aces ^ | 03-21-10 | Wordsmith
    This would be partisanly hilarious if it weren't so serious. From the Washington Post: The White House is considering whether to detain international terrorism suspects at a U.S. military base in Afghanistan, senior U.S. officials said, an option that would lead to another prison with the same purpose as Guantanamo Bay, which it has promised to close. The idea, which would require approval by President Obama, already has drawn resistance from within the government. Army Gen. Stanley A. McCrystal, the top commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, and other senior officials strongly oppose it, fearing that expansion of...
  • Stalking the CIA; Justice lawyers at daggers drawn with the ­intelligence community

    03/22/2010 6:41:10 AM PDT · by Sergeant Tim · 4 replies · 376+ views
    The Weekly Standard ^ | March 20, 2010 | Debra Burlingane & Tom Joscelyn
    Daskal’s anti-CIA activism was not limited to making hyperbolic statements to the press. Daskal and Human Rights Watch played a significant role in uncovering the CIA’s secret detention facilities in Eastern Europe and Afghanistan, where top terrorists were detained and interrogated. On November 2, 2005, Dana Priest of the Washington Post reported that the “CIA has been hiding and interrogating some of its most important al Qaeda captives at a Soviet-era compound in Eastern Europe.” The Post, citing the government’s security concerns, did not name the countries where the facilities were located. But just a few days later, on November...