Posted on 01/06/2010 12:22:37 PM PST by La Lydia
Its not a surprise the six detainees transferred from Gitmo to Yemen were released within a week of their return to Yemen, and its no surprise that the Saleh government in Yemen lied to the US with its pledge of continued detention. What's shocking is that anyone on the US side actually believed them to start with. The Heritage Foundation has some advice on Terrorist Transfers from Gitmo to Yemen:
Strictly monitor for at least a year the six Guantanamo Yemenis just transferred to Yemen. According to news reports, the Yemeni government has agreed to detain them indefinitely. If true, that is a good start; however, given the Yemeni government's track record in this area, there is cause for concern that it will not honor this promise. Make it clear to the Yemeni government that if any of the six "escape" from custody, then it will not be receiving any more of their countrymen held at Guantanamo.
However, despite the agreement with the US, as the Yemeni NGO HOOD notes in the following, they were all freed already:
After being held for nearly a week, the Yemeni Political Security Office set free the six Yemenis returned from Guantanamo Naval Base detention facility in Cuba where they were held for more than six years, a Yemeni security authentic source confirm this to HOOD.
Upon their return to Yemen on Dec. 20th, the Political Security Office in Sana’a transferred each detainee to the PSO detention facility at his home governorate where they remained for another week before they were able to secure guarantors.
Jamal Muhammad Alawi Mari, Farouq Ali Ahmed, Ayman Saeed Abdullah Batarfi, Muhammaed Yasir Ahmed Taher, Fayad Yahya Ahmed al Rami and Riyad Atiq Ali Abdu al Haf were cleared to return to Yemen by the U.S. Justice Department.
Heritage also advises the US to:
Demand the extradition of Fahd al-Quso and Jamal al-Badawi from Yemen to the U.S. for trial. Both of these Yemeni al-Qaeda members were intimately involved in the October 2000 bombing of the American destroyer USS Cole, which killed 17 American sailors. Al-Badawi was sentenced to death by a Yemeni court in 2004; he then "escaped" from jail in 2006. He is now back in the terrorist game in Yemen along with al-Quso. The Yemeni government has refused U.S. extradition requests. That must change now.
How about just keeping them in jail? The ploy the Yemeni government uses is that its unconstitutional to extradite Yemeni nationals to the US. But these two were convicted in a Yemeni court. Al Badawi was sentenced to death in 2004, and a year later his sentence commuted by President Saleh to 15 years. By my estimates he's got another ten years to go. Dittos on al Quso, who received a ten year sentence but was granted an early release in 2007.
Aw, but I thought they liked and respected Obama because, you know, he’s not Bush!
Well, Obamao doesn’t keep his promises either.
AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH
Libtard diplomacy... “better” and “smarter”.
Obama = Islam
Obama = Anti-American
Obama = Un-Constitutional
I’m sure the state run media will be all over this (Not).
Where’s the toon of the little guy banging his head against the wall?
“What’s shocking is that anyone on the US side actually believed them to start with.”
Is anyone here shocked?
Slings and Arrows probably has it in his files.
Is anyone here shocked?
No.
(( ping ))
This is the “catch and release” policy that has so infuriated the CIA....
The scumbag Kenyan communist Ubama strikes again.
Congratulations, America, on your “historic” election.
Yeah, I’m shocked, too.
God, how naive is he? Or does Barack Hussein Soetero Obama really in favor of Jihadists, his first religion?
“Is anyone here shocked?”
No, not at all. What a tool.
I think you answered your own question.
He's here:
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His afro-kin are playing him for a sukah!
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