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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Once an egg sucking dog learns he can steal eggs without getting his chain jerked he will come back and clean out the hen coop.
This man is going to do as much damage as he can from now until he is stopped, assuming that ever even occurs.
I wouldn’t have as much of a problem with releasing these terrorist murders from GITMO if the politicians were put in there for the rest of their worthless lives.
I think they should be put in together so they could be roomies with their cohorts.
This has been the twice unconstitutionally elected Islamic foreign agents agenda since day one, literally. The first day the twice unconstitutionally elected Islamic foreign agent took office on January 20th 2009, the very first thing he did was try to close down Gitmo. That was his #1 priority above EVERYTHING else. Why? Because he’s a twice unconstitutionally elected Islamic foreign agent. That is his true title because that’s what he really is, but because we have absolutely brain dead morons in both parties, he goes on and on like the Energizer bunny completely unopposed doing what twice unconstitutionally elected Islamic foreign agents do.
“When more Americans are taken hostage because the U.S. policy is that we now negotiate with terrorists, will Obamadullah get the blame or will the media cover that up too?”
More bluntly, if any are killed as a consequence, Obama should be impeached, removed from office and tried for treason.
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