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Obama Quote on Guantanamo Causing Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
BBC ^ | July 5, 2010 | Barack O.

Posted on 01/05/2010 3:40:32 PM PST by Shermy

"Make no mistake, we will close Guantanamo prison, which has damaged our national security interests and become a tremendous recruiting tool for al-Qaeda," he said.

"In fact, that was an explicit rationale for the formation of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; bho44; detainees; gitmo; guantanamo
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This is the much guessed quote.

Has Guantanamo become a recruiting tool of Al Qaeda? A "tremendous" one? Has Zawahiri, Gadahn, anyone complained about Gitmo? Has any terrorist said, posted, what have you "I joined because of Gitmo?"

And was Gitmo an"explcit rationale" for formation of the sub group? All I can find about them is the usual jihadi stuff and that non-Muslim subhumans must leave, even ambassadors, from the Peninsula.

1 posted on 01/05/2010 3:40:32 PM PST by Shermy
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To: Shermy

Gee, I guess if Al-Qaeda doesn’t like something that we do ... we’d better not do it!


2 posted on 01/05/2010 3:42:54 PM PST by dodger
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To: Shermy
The formation was actually a merger of two already existing groups, al-qaeda in Yemen and al-qaeda in Saudi Arabia.
3 posted on 01/05/2010 3:43:42 PM PST by tobyhill
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To: dodger

BamBam acts more and more like your petulant two year old every day. No brains, just reflex reaction.


4 posted on 01/05/2010 3:44:40 PM PST by Tarpon ( ...)
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To: Shermy

Just think, next year, they can join al Qaeda because of Illinois!

Stupid lib reassoning, BTW- that if we stop doing things al Qaeda disapproves of, they will like us.


5 posted on 01/05/2010 3:45:55 PM PST by silverleaf
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To: Shermy
The man has no shame whatsoever. He has been President for 50 weeks, and he still blames his predecessor whenever something goes wrong.
6 posted on 01/05/2010 3:45:59 PM PST by magellan
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To: tobyhill

Yeah, I seem to recall that the majority of the 911 Al-Qaeda terrorists were from the “Arabian Peninsula.”


7 posted on 01/05/2010 3:46:33 PM PST by KJC1
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To: Shermy

This nonsense about AQ Iraq being a response to Gitmo was a complete invention of Obamsky and the DemocRat party, all part of their being OBSESSED with villifying anything and everything Bush did. And they are doing damn near everything Bush did, now that they have to deal with the Muzzies. So, closing Gitmo, or letting Muslim terrorists board planes to the US, these are their attempts to distinguish themselves from Bush and please their loonie Left.


8 posted on 01/05/2010 3:47:51 PM PST by PaleoBob
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To: Shermy

>become a tremendous recruiting tool for al-Qaeda

If I was a potential-terrorist, and the worst that could happen to me was an all expenses stay at Club Gitmo, then that would indeed be a great draw for me, and that would indeed be a setback to our National Security interests.


9 posted on 01/05/2010 3:49:19 PM PST by ROTB (Public Option vs. Insurance: Armed men at my door demanding payment vs a "bill")
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To: silverleaf

Also an obsession with trying to blame jihadism on American acts. Liberals obsess with trying to make this connection, “the root cause is us” stuff.

But Obama said “explicit” so I bet there is a smidgen of overrated and misinterpreted evidence of a Gitmo causation. Something for the liberals to hold on to in order to maintain their world vision.

Actually, I think a Gitmo incarceration would be seen as a bonus within the group, earning admiration. Like with the Mafia.


10 posted on 01/05/2010 3:49:39 PM PST by Shermy
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To: Shermy

What an ass.


11 posted on 01/05/2010 3:50:34 PM PST by GVnana ("Obama is incredibly naive and grossly egotistical." Sarkozy)
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To: Shermy
It was the corrupt Amish that created the Mafia.
12 posted on 01/05/2010 3:55:50 PM PST by tobyhill
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To: Shermy

“In fact, that was an explicit rationale for the formation of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.”

In ‘fact’, sayeth Obomba. Making it up, day after day.


13 posted on 01/05/2010 3:58:57 PM PST by corvus
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To: Shermy
In related news, Obama clearly believes that the only reason that criminals are committing crimes is due to police officers behaving "stupidly"....

What a moron...

14 posted on 01/05/2010 3:59:53 PM PST by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: Shermy

Make no mistake. Obama is a clear and present danger to the security of the United States.


15 posted on 01/05/2010 4:00:38 PM PST by Carley (OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
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To: Shermy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQZ2Lsi4NXE&feature=player_embedded#

Obama on Guantanamo Bay

January 05, 2010


16 posted on 01/05/2010 4:00:54 PM PST by maggief
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To: PaleoBob

“In fact, that was an explicit rationale for the formation of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula”

He said it. Explicit. Will any journo ask him or cronies about the evidence for this?

Everything I find is this subgroup is focused not on world events, but the Saud Monarchy, and now Yemen, and forcing every single subhuman (non-Muslim) out of Saudi Arabia.


17 posted on 01/05/2010 4:01:40 PM PST by Shermy
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To: Shermy
Gitmo was established long before that.... "You need me on that wall."
18 posted on 01/05/2010 4:04:18 PM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah."Our middle regiment, Gloria Patri, Filio et Spirito Sancto.)
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To: Shermy

well, Bush started housing terror detainees there after the war started against Afghanistan in 2001 and we needed someplace to send the POW’s

So these obamite fools must think no one recognizes that al Qaeda was operating in the Arabian peninsula before 9-11

cuckoo! cuckoo! cuckoo!


19 posted on 01/05/2010 4:06:30 PM PST by silverleaf
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To: combat_boots

Col. Jessep: *You want answers?*
Kaffee: *I want the truth!*
Col. Jessep: *You can’t handle the truth!*
[pauses]
Col. Jessep: Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Whose gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinburg? I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago, and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know. That Santiago’s death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don’t want the truth because deep down in places you don’t talk about at parties, you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said, “Thank you,” and went on your way, Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand a post. Either way, I don’t give a damn what you think you are entitled to.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104257/quotes


20 posted on 01/05/2010 4:08:21 PM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah."Our middle regiment, Gloria Patri, Filio et Spirito Sancto.)
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