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The Gitmo Guard Who Converted to Islam
Newsweek ^ | March 21, 2009 | Dan Ephron

Posted on 03/26/2009 2:57:42 PM PDT by lowbridge

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To: HiTech RedNeck

“You can’t beat somethin’ with nothin” .”

That’s what happens when people who are essentially empty-— relativists, secularists, post-Judeo-Christian, etc. — come in contact with religious conviction, even a conviction which is erroneous or even delusional.

The Soul, like Nature, abhors a vacuum.

Some would say he was like a clean-swept house that attracted new tenants; and you can read more about that at Matthew 11:24-26.


41 posted on 03/26/2009 3:36:51 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Mammalia Primatia Hominidae Homo sapiens. Still working on the "sapiens" part.)
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To: lowbridge
He then uttered the words aloud and, there on the floor of Guantánamo's Camp Delta, became a Muslim.

They should have put him in another cell, for fraternization with the inmates. His job was to guard them, not hold long and meaningful, or meaningless as the case may be, conversations with them.

42 posted on 03/26/2009 3:39:41 PM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: lowbridge

something does not smell right to me.


43 posted on 03/26/2009 3:40:29 PM PDT by Cailleach
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To: SolidWood

1.) Why did they let this obviously unstable guy near the place to begin with?

2.) Where was his commanding officer when all this fraternizing with the enemy was going on?

3.) I’d like to jerk a knot in that earlobe.


44 posted on 03/26/2009 3:42:22 PM PDT by Dinah Lord (fighting the Islamofascist Jihad - one keystroke at a time...)
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To: SolidWood

what a clown


45 posted on 03/26/2009 3:43:56 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: lowbridge

When an Oprah like figure converts to Islam America will become a Moslem country. It is only a matter of time. The West seems to be sick unto death. I hope I’m wrong.


46 posted on 03/26/2009 3:44:23 PM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: lowbridge

Maybe this guy is a plant to infiltrate Al-Queda, but that would probably be too optimistic.


47 posted on 03/26/2009 3:45:58 PM PDT by Dan Cooper
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To: hinckley buzzard
They should vett these guards a little closer.

Anyone who does that Ubangi earlobe disfigurement is akin to those that split their tongues.

Mentally deranged.

That's what it takes to join the false religion political cult of Islam, but should be screened out from guarding terrorists.

48 posted on 03/26/2009 3:49:52 PM PDT by Syncro (Qui non intelligit, aut taceat, aut discat)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

You have a lot more confidence in President Obama than I do.


49 posted on 03/26/2009 3:55:37 PM PDT by Sudetenland (Victory in 2012...but first Victory in 2010!!!)
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To: lowbridge

He’s a loser of the first order. From the article:

“When his company visited the site of the 9/11 attacks in New York, Holdbrooks remembers thinking there had to be a broader explanation, and that the Bush administration must have colluded somehow in the plot.”

I’d just like to tell the loser to FOAD. BTW, is it any surprise that the rag newsweek holds him out as a hero? /SPIT


50 posted on 03/26/2009 4:00:44 PM PDT by piytar (Obama = Mugabe wannabe. Wake up America.)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS
"When an Oprah like figure converts to Islam America will become a Moslem country. It is only a matter of time. The West seems to be sick unto death. I hope I’m wrong."

You're not only wrong you're delusional. My religious friends would be the first to tell you, I'm the furthest thing from a holy roller. However, my fellow veterans and active duty patriots will assure you and America that our nation will never fly the flag of the Muslim religion. I don't even like hearing that used as a scare tactic. There are too many patriots in this country to even consider such a thing.

51 posted on 03/26/2009 4:01:03 PM PDT by blaquebyrd
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To: lowbridge

The real AntiChrist is the future leader of islam.

Antichrist: Islam’s Awaited Messiah
http://www.amazon.com/Antichrist-Awaited-Messiah-Joel-Richardson/dp/1414104405


52 posted on 03/26/2009 4:04:21 PM PDT by gop4lyf (Obama wants to raise taxes and kill babies. Palin wants to raise babies and kill taxes.)
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To: lowbridge

Read the article. You have guards making friends with the prisoners, guards converting to Islam, guards traveling with ex-inmates to criticize their incarceration.

Name any POW facility in any war in any country where that kind of thing happens. And yet people are convinced that Guantanamo is some kind of torture chamber. Americans naturally find it very difficult to hold a grudge against anyone. The luckiest day in most inmates’ lives is the day they get captured by an American.


53 posted on 03/26/2009 4:06:00 PM PDT by marron
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To: piytar
“When his company visited the site of the 9/11 attacks in New York, Holdbrooks remembers thinking there had to be a broader explanation, and that the Bush administration must have colluded somehow in the plot.”

There is presidential culpability alright, but the president involved isn't George Bush.
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54 posted on 03/26/2009 4:13:57 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.)
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To: lowbridge
The "general" who converted this nonentity Holdbrooks, Ahmed Errachidi, turns out to be a mistake. The ever corrupt Paki police had grabbed him and turned him over to the CIA to collect a $5,000 reward, making up a story that he was part of an Al Qaeda training camp. But he was released from Gitmo in 2007 after it was proven he was working as a chef in London during the time he was supposedly at the training camp.

If the people at Gitmo had been doing their jobs properly, Errachidi would have been sprung much earlier (the evidence was in hand, just ignored), and, who knows, Terry Holdbrooks might be a Krishna nut or a Scientologist by now.

55 posted on 03/26/2009 4:15:10 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: lowbridge

When is he going to start stoning young girls who have committed adultery? How about pushing walls over on homosexuals?


56 posted on 03/26/2009 4:24:12 PM PDT by Titus-Maximus (Having a pool is 11 times more likely to kill a child than owning a gun....)
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To: lowbridge
Unfortunately there's always weak people who are easily duped, used and conned by manipulating criminals. I worked in Corrections, and over the years, teachers, nurses, and officers were fired from various facilities for having sex with inmates, and/or bringing in drugs or other contraband to the convicts. These people put the rest of us in jeopardy, and were a direct threat to the security of the facility they were working at. In most cases, it was another convict that ratted them out.

I'm surprised this guy was allowed to sit and talk with these terrorists for as long as he says he did. That isn't what his job was. He was there for security, not as a social worker. In the end, he was mind-f*cked by a murderer, and put his fellow soldiers lives in jeopardy. I wonder when he will realize what a joke his so-called conversion was to the Gitmo prisoners, because in their eyes, he's not a true muslim. What a putz.

57 posted on 03/26/2009 4:27:22 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: lowbridge

Obama Voter easy to see easily manipulated and low IQ necessary for this type of cult activity.


58 posted on 03/26/2009 4:31:49 PM PDT by Cheetahcat (Osamabama the Wright kind of Racist!)
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To: ansel12

Frankly, Newsweek must be hard-up for news, to have even entertained any story from someone like this, who has more baggage than the Samosonite company.


59 posted on 03/26/2009 4:36:09 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: mass55th
"who has more baggage than the Samosonite company."

LOL, no kidding.

60 posted on 03/26/2009 4:39:38 PM PDT by ansel12 (Romney (guns)"instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people")
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