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Five Guantánamo Prisoners Are Released to Kazakhstan
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| 12-30-2014
| HELENE COOPER
Posted on 12/31/2014 4:09:57 AM PST by Citizen Zed
The United States transferred five detainees from the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to Kazakhstan, the Defense Department announced late Tuesday. It was the last in a flurry of year-end moves as President Obama sought to fulfill his promise to close the American-run prison.
The five former detainees three Yemenis and two Tunisians are free men for all intents and purposes after the transfer, a senior official in the Obama administration said. Officials declined to disclose the security assurances reached between the United States and Kazakhstan or detail how the men would be prevented from returning to battlefields in Afghanistan or Pakistan.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: gitmo; gitmodetainees; gitmolawyers; gitmorelease; holder
More future drone targets?
To: Citizen Zed
What did we get in trade? A package of gummi bears, a Vietnam era draft dodger, and a handful of magic beans?
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posted on
12/31/2014 4:14:19 AM PST
by
lowbridge
To: Citizen Zed
What people need to remember, is that these last detainees at Guantanamo are the very worst of the lot.
We’ll be hearing about them again.
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posted on
12/31/2014 4:20:10 AM PST
by
nuconvert
( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
To: nuconvert
There is some truth to the mindset that the voting public in America is stupid. There will be a price paid, in American blood, for the lawless Marxist in chief.
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posted on
12/31/2014 4:31:58 AM PST
by
exnavy
(Got ammo, Godspeed)
To: Citizen Zed
The detainees, like the others, HIRED HOlder to free them.
"Attorney General Holder's Advisers Have Conflicts on Detainee Cases"
"Eric Holder's Law Firm Has a history of representing Terrorists"
"Corruptocrat AG Eric Holder's conflicted DOJ"
The Al-Qaeda Bar (Big Law Firms Line Up to Represent Terrorists)
"Some of the nation's wealthiest and most powerful law firms have donated hundreds of
millions of dollars in free legal services to terror suspects at the Guantanamo Bay prison.
Their work, bolstered by left-wing activists groups, has helped to free, or force the
transfer, of hundreds of al Qaeda suspects to third countries. Some have gone back to
terrorism and the job of trying to kill Americans.
The work of big American law firms on behalf of al Qaeda is drawing new attention since
Attorney General Eric Holder decided this month that Khalid Sheik Mohammed, who
orchestrated the murder of over 3,000 9-11, is coming to New York City for trial. Holder
was a partner at Covington & Burling, which in 2005 gave one its attorneys an award for
aiding 17 Yemeni suspects at Guantanamo."
A list of 10 of the largest American legal firms representing Guantanamo terror detainees:
Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw
Blank Rome
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips
Shearman & Sterling
Allen & Overy
Convington & Burling
Dorsey & Whitney
Holland & Hart
Hunton & Williams
Paul, Weiss"
"Obama Obama shifts FBI from Counter Terrorism to Fraud"
"Victims of Cole bombing upset
"A top officer slammed Obama's decision to seek the withdrawal of charges against the 2000 suspected U.S.S. Cole ship bomber."
"Impeach Obama Says Sister of Cole Sailor Killed in Terror Attacks
"The sister of Seaman James McDaniels, a sailor killed in the terror attack on the U.S.S. Cole wants President Barack Hussein Obama impeached
over his decision to withdraw charges against the al Qaeda mastermind of the attack."
"Mother of USS Cole Sailor Declines Obama-meet, Says "I Voted for the Wrong Person"
"After Obama dropped the charges against the suspect in the bombing of the USS Cole,
he asked the families of the victims in that tragedy to meet with him.
One mother refused, and now says,"I voted for the wrong person."
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posted on
12/31/2014 4:40:19 AM PST
by
Diogenesis
("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
To: Citizen Zed
and America takes another one in the........
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posted on
12/31/2014 4:55:35 AM PST
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
To: Citizen Zed
It worked so well last time, with one of them creating ISIS; let’s do it again.
The reason liberals always repeat the mistakes of the past is because they think they are so smart their ideas can’t be bad. Thus if they didn’t work that must mean that they didn’t do them enough.
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posted on
12/31/2014 4:55:50 AM PST
by
logic101.net
(If libs believe in Darwin and natural selection why do they get hacked off when it happens?)
To: Citizen Zed
Drip drip drip... zero let’s them out oneze twoze. When they are all out of Gitmo he adds closing Gitmo to his bucket list. Just sayin.
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posted on
12/31/2014 5:14:43 AM PST
by
duckman
To: Citizen Zed
That’s the last thing the Kazakhs need!
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posted on
12/31/2014 5:18:10 AM PST
by
Jack Hydrazine
(Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
To: Citizen Zed
Book them a ride home on AirAsia.
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posted on
12/31/2014 5:27:23 AM PST
by
Ouchthatonehurt
("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
To: Jack Hydrazine
Thats the last thing the Kazakhs need!
Yes, I think that we can now say officially that the Borat movie is no longer the worst thing that has ever happened to them.
To: duckman
Drip drip drip... zero lets them out oneze twoze. When they are all out of Gitmo he adds closing Gitmo to his bucket list. Just sayin. In accord with his election plank, Obama wants Gitmo closed, and terrorist prisoners released.
In exchange for a US embassy in Havana, Obama could return the entire Gitmo base to Castro, who hasn't recognize the US' lease of Gitmo, and merely stacks the Gitmo checks in his office.
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posted on
12/31/2014 5:32:43 AM PST
by
Does so
(SCOTUS Newbies Imperil USA...)
To: lowbridge
What did we get in trade?
Borat
To: Citizen Zed
So, did they get to ride in the back of a C-130 or up front in one of the vip planes?
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posted on
12/31/2014 6:17:14 AM PST
by
CPOSharky
(I was born with nothing, and I still have most of it.)
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