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 Sanaa 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.
That’s the one! Thanks, Nully.
Kudos to Hillary Clinton and all her sycophants at Fatty Bottom!!
This is not surprising but is still terri .
I wish there was a link to where JAWA got this information. I would send it to other outlets and get Light on this
We will be giving Yemen 140 Million this year. I say BS to that. keep the money here if that is how they act
Here is a link to where Jawa got the info.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/18/AR2009121800898.html
How about killing them?
Zer0 wants everyone to like him and it’s for sure that the Yemeni government and al Qaeda does.
Thanks for the ping, Lancey.
You be the judge:
Everything 0bama has done has:
A. weakened America...or some combination of the above.
B. strengthened islam
C. attacked Israel
Can you cite something -anything- of substance that hes done that doesnt fit A, B and/or C?
There are a number of things he was for on the campaign trail, heh heh ha Nancy Pelosi
That’s surprising.
I think, like Glenn Beck has alluded to this week, that Obama is closer to Marx than Madison, so we need to approach him as a naked Communist who hates America and Judeo-Christian heritage.
He is toxic and an utter failure.
“Or does Barack Hussein Soetero Obama really in favor of Jihadists, his first religion?”
If you have to ask that question, You haven’t been keeping up on obama.
Once obama car is signed into law, then you will see the real obama.
Oops, I like your little guy too! Didn’t mean to show any favoritism. And I won’t. I shall steal both of them.
When he was asked about the earlier Gitmo releases, who have already gone back to terrorism, he said he planned to keep his promise to release all the rest of the Yemenis in Gitmo.
The Islamists certainly wanted 0b0z0 to beat Hillary then McCain. They knew he’s the weakest candidate ever.
In spite of the self-proclaimed world citizenship and intellectualism, the 0b0z0 regime doesn’t know or comprehend one important aspect of dealing with Islamists; the regime is despised by Arabs and Islamists who consider them weaklings and cowards!
I suspect that 0b0z0 is also disrespected by most world leaders, even though most do not advertise it. Friends dont trust him to have their backs and foes dont fear him even if he appears to be on their backs. Case in point, Iranians are slapping his face (thats also ours, Im afraid!) on daily bases and daring him to try to stop them.
No wonder, in the eyes of many world leaders of all stripes, Obama is now considered an Omama, The Emasculated One.
bases should be basis.
How utterly stupid! But what else is new with this group of nitwits. They have no desire to even try to keep us safe.
No worries - I’m stealing Nully’s little guy too.
All your basis are belong to us.
Obama already knew they would be released, He’s Muslim, he knows Muslims are ‘allowed’ to lie to infidels...
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