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Emptying Gitmo: Government considers freeing another Guantanamo inmate, on heels of Bergdahl swap
foxnews ^ | 6/4/14 | n kalman

Posted on 06/04/2014 12:13:31 PM PDT by bestintxas

As controversy grows over the release of five hardened Taliban detainees in exchange for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the Obama administration is considering springing yet another prisoner from Guantanamo Bay.

Fouzi Khalid Abdullah al-Awda appeared via a video feed before a review board Wednesday morning in northern Virginia, often smiling as his private counsel Eric Lewis made the case for his release.

Al-Awda has been held prisoner for 12 years. According to Defense Department officials and his official Guantanamo detainee profile, he traveled from his home in Kuwait to Afghanistan just before the 9/11 attacks to train in terrorist camps, and "possibly" fight alongside the Taliban and Al Qaeda.

Al-Awda maintains he only went to Afghanistan for "humanitarian reasons to provide alms for the poor and to teach the Koran."

The deliberations follow the administration's controversial decision to free five Taliban leaders from Guantanamo in exchange for Bergdahl over the weekend. Lawmakers say the former prisoners are high-risk and were among the most sought-after detainees by Taliban leadership. There are now 149 detainees left at Guantanamo, which President Obama has struggled to close since taking office in 2009.

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To: bestintxas
There are now 149 detainees left at Guantanamo, which President Obama has a troll all to be to close since taking office in 2009.

And we all know one translation of the term- struggle

21 posted on 06/04/2014 12:29:24 PM PDT by mikrofon (Gitmo BUMP)
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To: bestintxas

If there’s no repercussions for his actions, why would ths POS stop?


22 posted on 06/04/2014 12:29:48 PM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: Sacajaweau

Let’s start calling “Terrorism” what it really is - Jihad.


23 posted on 06/04/2014 12:30:23 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: bestintxas

The bastard is just trying to get us to revolt, so he can declare Martial Law. If this doesnt work, he’ll just try something else. Which is why he must be physically removed from office, NOW!


24 posted on 06/04/2014 12:30:52 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Anything is possible, if you don't know what you're talking about.)
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To: jersey117

He is freeing the worst ones so that next year he can say the others are lightweight and should all be cut loose.


25 posted on 06/04/2014 12:31:08 PM PDT by morphing libertarian ( On to impeachment and removal (IRS, Benghazi)!!!)
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I have NO idea how “a troll all” got replaced there ;)


26 posted on 06/04/2014 12:31:36 PM PDT by mikrofon (Gitmo BUMP)
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To: dhs12345

Sadly,,America has already forgotten about the VA horror show.....they’ll forget about this in due time. However, they CAN remember who got kicked off The Survivor Island last season.


27 posted on 06/04/2014 12:31:54 PM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: bestintxas

I am shocked, shocked I tell ya, that Kuwait has not worked hard get back this fine moral upstanding citizen and deliverer of alms to the poor

I wonder why


28 posted on 06/04/2014 12:32:57 PM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: bestintxas
Who is stopping him? (Obama)

But.....you don't want it to be a campaign issue? geesh

29 posted on 06/04/2014 12:34:23 PM PDT by grania
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To: bestintxas

How much will this Gitmo release cost in lives lost or taxpayer dollars? The SOB in the White Hut needs to be given A WARNING from someone with authority instead the few talking heads who seem to give a crap. These are TREASONOUS and CRIMINAL ACTS. Who is going to step up and say enough? NO ONE. THAT’S WHO. AND HE KNEW IT SIX YEARS AGO WHEN HE WAS SWORN IN. I absolutely loathe this man and all that he has done to this country.


30 posted on 06/04/2014 12:37:45 PM PDT by fivecatsandadog (OBAMA .... .....WORST.... PRESIDENT......EVER)
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America

I will blame him. And I bet a lot of other Americans will blame him.


31 posted on 06/04/2014 12:39:59 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: Old Yeller

Totally agree. I’m so ticked off right now I can hardly see straight.


32 posted on 06/04/2014 12:40:09 PM PDT by fivecatsandadog (OBAMA .... .....WORST.... PRESIDENT......EVER)
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To: Puppage
Good point. But what is worth, I will blame Obama and will a lot of other people.
33 posted on 06/04/2014 12:41:41 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: bestintxas
ever notice when a democrat gets caught lying or betrays the public trust on a mammoth scale? the democrats circle the wagons to first protect the party and then double down by publicly rewarding the individual with all the bells and whistles. that kind of crap is getting so old.
34 posted on 06/04/2014 12:42:52 PM PDT by drypowder
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To: bestintxas

The first release without following the “LAWS” of the land was just a test case. So now he plans on EMPTYING GITMO and no further notification will be required because the LAWS of the United States of America do not apply to the first black President - even when he signed the law. Congress will not cooperate so he has to use his phone and pen all alone to achieve what he promised his looney left base.


35 posted on 06/04/2014 12:43:28 PM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: bestintxas
Yep...the whole point of this exercise is to close Guantanamo.

Liar in Chief can then say he got socialized medicine, he finished the Iraqi and Afgani wars, he got carbon credits, and he closed Guantanamo.

Disgusting.

36 posted on 06/04/2014 12:44:52 PM PDT by what's up (sun)
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To: bestintxas

I’m afraid Odumsh*t is going to unilaterally empty Gitmo of these goat-humpers before he leaves office, then give himself a presidential pardon.


37 posted on 06/04/2014 12:45:25 PM PDT by attiladhun2 (The Free World has a new leader--his name is Benjamin Netanyahu)
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To: bestintxas


38 posted on 06/04/2014 12:46:31 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Black skin has morphed into Teflon.)
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To: bestintxas

Some of the Gitmo boys should be released to work in the White House. I’m sure the Obama brats could use a baby sitter or someone to teach them to recite the Koran just like their father was taught. I bet Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi could also use some office help, a new gardener etc.


39 posted on 06/04/2014 12:47:32 PM PDT by The Great RJ
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To: Old Yeller

Kind of a win-win for him, no?

Either he gets all the radical anti-American stuff implemented without opposition,

or opposition rises up so that he has an excuse to use military force against those who oppose him.


40 posted on 06/04/2014 12:49:07 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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