Posted on 01/20/2009 2:48:21 AM PST by Cindy
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) - Plans to close Guantanamo are not sitting well with the Sept. 11 victims' relatives who sat stunned while two alleged terrorists declared they were proud of their role in the plot.
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Well, well, well... no surprise, the jihadis are giving the Obama administration a verbal pat on the back:
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LR340030.htm
“Taliban say Guantanamo closure “positive step””
27 Jan 2009 23:41:41 GMT
Source: Reuters
LONDON, Jan 27 (Reuters) -
SNIPPET: “”Obama’s move to close Guantanamo detention centre is a positive step for peace and stability in the region and the world...,” the Taliban said in a message posted on Islamist websites, monitored by the U.S.-based terrorism monitor, the SITE Intelligence Group.
The message said Obama had to reverse the policies of former President George W. Bush in Afghanistan and the Islamic world.
“If Obama is right and, according to his words, wants to open a new page based on peaceful interaction built on mutual respect with the Islamic world, the first thing he has to do is to stop and annul all these procedures, which were created according to Bush’s criminal policy,” it said.
“He must completely withdraw all his forces from the two occupied Islamic countries (Afghanistan and Iraq), and to stop defending Israel against Islamic interests in the Middle East and the entire world,” the Taliban message said.”
Where’s the jersey girls?
Done with their fits?
No idea.
Maybe they applied as cheer leaders for the Big Zero.
NOTE: The following post is a quote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2173110/posts
Bomber’s Martyrdom Tape Renews Fears Over Consequences of Closing Gitmo
Fox ^ | 1/27/2009 | Fox
Posted on January 27, 2009 5:31:22 PM PST by Red in Blue PA
As President Obama pushes for the closure of Guantanamo Bay prison, the debate over where to house the terror detainees being held there is heating up.
An exclusive video of a former Gitmo detainee’s martyrdom tape, obtained by FOX News, is a reminder of the concerns that terror suspects — who have been held but released from Guantanamo Bay — are increasingly returning to the fight against the United States and its allies.
Abdallah Ali al-Ajmi was transferred back to his home country of Kuwait after his release from Guantanamo in 2005. Last April he blew himself up in a homicide attack that killed 12 people in Mosul, Iraq.
Al-Ajmi, known in Guantanamo as Detainee 220, made his martyrdom tape before the attack.
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ADDING to post no. 21:
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www.nefafoundation.org/documents-original.html#taliban0109
www.nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/nefataliban0109.pdf
BLOG:
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2009/01/nefa_foundation_taliban_insist.php
“NEFA Foundation: Taliban Insist “Closing the Cages of Guantanamo Is Not Enough””
By Evan Kohlmann
(January 28, 2009)
ADDING to post no. 25:
www.nefafoundation.org/multimedia-prop.html#nefagitmosuicide0109
(Note: The above link includes a video.)
BLOG:
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2009/01/nefa_foundation_video_of_forme.php
“NEFA Foundation: Video of Former Gitmo Detainee-Turned-Al-Qaida Suicide Bomber in Iraq”
By Evan Kohlmann
(January 27, 2009)
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,483764,00.html
“Bomber’s Martyrdom Tape Renews Fears Over Consequences of Closing Gitmo”
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=E5311E30-161A-4380-B8E6-22F5457072AB
“Change Terrorists Can Believe In”
By Joseph Klein
FrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, January 29, 2009
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BLOG:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/01/barry_honey_can_we_talk_about.html
January 28, 2009
“Barry, Honey, can we talk about Gitmo?”
By Kyle-Anne Shiver
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http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/8627
QUOTE:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2175079/posts
Former USS Cole commander slams Obama on Guantanamo
Miami Herald ^ | 1-30-09 | Carol Rosenberg
Posted on January 30, 2009 10:29:31 AM PST by 444Flyer
The former commander of the USS Cole, the American war ship that was struck by a suicide boat in Yemeni waters more than eight years ago, on Thursday slammed President Barack Obama’s orders to close the Guantanamo detention center and reassess the prisoners being held there.
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Thanks to Oorang (The Threat Matrix at FreeRepublic.com) for pointing to this link/article:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3665845,00.html
(REUTERS)
“Saudi issues wanted list of 83 militants overseas”
Published: 02.02.09, 23:36 / Israel News
SNIPPET: “Saudi television read the names and showed photographs of the wanted men, all Saudis except for two Yemenis, who it said had “adopted the straying ideology”, a reference to al-Qaeda. The announcement followed a move last month by al-Qaeda’s wing in neighbouring Yemen to name two Saudis released from the US military prison camp in Guantanamo as commanders.”
Note: The following post is a quote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2176829/posts
OBAMA: SURE, GITMO DETAINEES COULD ATTACK US
NY Post ^ | February 2, 2009 | CLEMENTE LISI
Posted on February 2, 2009 11:13:59 AM PST by RobinMasters
President Obama said he is worried that detainees freed from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay might resume attacks on this country - but argued that its closure had to be done in order to “uphold” what he called “our values.”
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Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=52940
Navy Admiral to Lead Review of Guantanamo Detention Facility
By Gerry J. Gilmore
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3, 2009 – Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has selected a Navy four-star admiral to lead an assessment of operations at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a senior Defense Department official said here today.
Adm. Patrick M. Walsh, the vice chief of Naval Operations, will head the review, Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell told reporters.
The White House has tasked the Pentagon to assess the detention operations at Guantanamo Bay as part of President Barack Obama’s decision to close the facility, Morrell said.
Obama issued an executive order Jan. 22 that directs the closure of the Guantanamo detention center within a year. Obama signed another executive order that day directing the stand-up of a special interagency task force that will study the future disposition of present Guantanamo detainees who cannot be transferred to other countries and who pose a serious danger to the United States.
Another presidential executive order issued Jan. 22 directs the U.S. military and other U.S. agencies to follow the Army Field Manual, which bans torture when interrogating detainees “to promote the safe, lawful and humane treatment of individuals in United States custody,” Obama said at the signing ceremony. The directive, Obama added, highlights the importance for the United States to comply with the Geneva Conventions.
The Walsh-led appraisal of detainee operations at Guantanamo “is a subset of the executive orders that the president signed a couple of weeks ago,” Morrell said.
The admiral’s review of Guantanamo’s detention operations is to be completed within 30 days, Morrell said.
Pentagon officials believe that detainee operations at Guantanamo “have been in compliance with Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions for some time and are still so,” Morrell said.
“But, we take this tasking from the White House very seriously,” Morrell said, “and that’s why the secretary has asked a four-star flag officer to go down there, and put fresh eyes on the situation down there, and come back with the most up-to-date assessment of detention operations.”
Obama directed Gates on Jan. 20 to pause legal proceedings involving alleged terrorists being held and tried there, pending further guidance from the White House. The president directed the secretary, who then directed the Office of Military Commissions, to cease referring any new cases through the military-commissions process at Guantanamo and to request 120-day continuances on all ongoing active cases there.
Biographies:
Navy Adm. Patrick M. Walsh
Related Sites:
Military Commissions Act of 2006
Military Commissions Fact Sheet
Joint Task Force Guantanamo
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Military Commissions Must Obey President’s Directive, Official Says
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Gates Cites Positive Response to Pending Guantanamo Closure
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President Directs Suspension of Guantanamo Bay Commissions
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Security/Default.aspx?id=406382
“Gitmo’s inmates on U.S. soil - a ‘magnet for jihadists’”
Chad Groening - OneNewsNow - 2/3/2009 8:55:00 AM
SNIPPET: “Lt. Colonel Gordon Cucullu (USA-Ret.) has written a new book entitled Inside Gitmo: The True Story Behind the Myths of Guantanamo Bay. He has some serious concerns about housing the detainees anywhere on U.S. soil.
“What I think is a very dangerous option would be outright release [of the prisoners] — and I think that the activists would settle for no less, frankly,” says Cucullu. “Any location on the mainland of the United States is going to be a magnet for jihadists from around the world to try to either break these guys out, or even more dangerously to take hostage or to inflict casualties among the local communities.”
Cucullu says the same critics who refer to Guantanamo as the “Gulag of our times” will refer to any facility on the mainland in the same manner. The retired Army officer believes heated debate will surround the detainees’ status — and that it will probably take much longer than a year to resolve.”
Note: Video included.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0209/18390.html
“Cheney warns of new attacks”
By JOHN F. HARRIS & MIKE ALLEN & JIM VANDEHEI | 2/4/09 5:56 AM EST Updated: 2/4/09 3:19 PM EST
BLOG:
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/02/04/obama-making-us-less-safe-cheney-says/
February 4, 2009
Obama making U.S. less safe, Cheney says
Posted: 12:38 PM ET
From CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney
“Cheney said the Obama administration’s policies are making the country less safe.”
SNIPPET: “(CNN) – The Obama administration’s new policies on Guantanamo Bay prison and the treatment of detainees makes it more likely a terrorist attack against the United States will succeed, former Vice President Dick Cheney said Tuesday.”
http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html
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Note: Photos included.
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/02/saudi_arabias_mostwa.php
Saudi Arabia’s most-wanted
By THOMAS JOSCELYNFebruary 4, 2009 7:00 AM
Eighteen of the 85 terrorists wanted by Saudi Arabia. Reuters photo.
Yesterday, Saudi Arabia released a list of 85 “most-wanted” terrorists. The list includes 11 former Guantánamo detainees who were placed in Saudi Arabia’s rehabilitation program. One of the terrorists on the list operates a major al Qaeda network on Iranian soil.
According to an anonymous Saudi security official cited by the New York Times, Abdullah al Qarawi is a Saudi who has been operating inside Iran for more than three years. Qarawi is reportedly known as “the Star” and has “more than 100 Saudis working for him in Iran, where they move about freely,” the Saudi official said. Qarawi “is in charge of al Qaeda’s operations in the Persian Gulf and Iran, and of bringing new members into Afghanistan.”
The Times report does not say that Qarawi was a detainee at Guantánamo. But, the unclassified files created by the U.S. government at Guantánamo contain dozens of details concerning the al Qaeda network operating inside Iran. The Long War Journal reviewed the files and identified more than 50 current and former Guantánamo detainees who had some association with Iran. Most of these transited al Qaeda’s facilitation points in eastern Iran. In addition to Tehran, the eastern Iranian cities of Mashhad, Zahedan and Tayyebat were regularly identified as al Qaeda transit points in the unclassified Guantánamo files.
Note: The following post is a quote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2179292/posts
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Obama to Meet with Terrorism Victims and Families (9/11 and Cole Victims/Families re: Gitmo)
The Washington Post ^ | Thursday, February 5, 2009 | Michael D. Shear, Peter Finn and Dan Eggen
Posted on February 5, 2009 3:38:08 PM PST by kristinn
President Obama will gather tomorrow with victims and families of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and U.S.S. Cole bombing for a face-to-face meeting as his administration struggles to decide how to handle detainees at Guatanamo Bay, Cuba, several of those invited said.
The previously undisclosed meeting at the White House tomorrow afternoon will give the new president a chance to explain his decision to close the controversial prison facility where the U.S. has placed many suspected terrorists since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Obama has been assailed by conservative critics who say the decision to close the facility within a year will lead to putting many of those terrorists back on the street. In a recent interview, former vice president Dick Cheney, an architect of the Bush administration’s war on terror, criticized the decision as reckless.
SNIP
One 9/11 activist, who declined to be identified talking about the meeting, said “fireworks” are likely at the gathering because it will include both relatives who oppose and those who support Obama’s plan to close Guantanamo Bay. “There’s been some noise that some families don’t like the idea and others do, so this is a chance to discuss that,” the activist said.
Jim Riches, a retired New York firefighter whose son, Jimmy Riches, died in the 9-11 attacks, said in an interview Thursday that he wants to hear directly from President Obama what the government intends to do with the prisoners.
“I want to know, are they going to drop the charges? Are they going to try them in another court?” he said. “I want to let them know that these men are dangerous.”
Riches praised Obama for agreeing to a meeting so soon after taking office.
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