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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.”
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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.