Posted on 01/23/2009 12:31:16 PM PST by COUNTrecount
BEIRUT: The emergence of a former Guantánamo Bay detainee as the deputy leader of Al Qaeda's Yemeni branch has underscored the potential complications in carrying out the executive order that President Barack Obama signed that the detention center be shut down within a year.
The militant, Said Ali al-Shihri, is suspected of involvement in a deadly bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Yemen's capital, Sana, in September. He was released to Saudi Arabia in 2007 and passed through a Saudi rehabilitation program for former jihadists before resurfacing with Al Qaeda in Yemen.
His status was announced in an Internet statement by the militant group and was confirmed by a U.S. counterterrorism official. "They're one and the same guy," said the official, who insisted on anonymity because he was discussing an intelligence analysis. "He returned to Saudi Arabia in 2007, but his movements to Yemen remain unclear."
The development came as Republican legislators criticized the plan to close the Guantánamo Bay detention camp in the absence of any measures for dealing with current detainees. But it also helps explain why the new administration wants to move cautiously, taking time to work out a plan to cope with the complications.
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Just one of these monsters kills another American, and the MSM can sing President Obama’s praises even louder than they did this past year...he’ll still be a one term President fired for insufferable stupidity, just like Carter.
I wonder should anybody be surprised by this? The Gitmo detainees weren’t being kept in ultra-secure facilities for the good of their health: they were kept there because they are dangerous terrorists — probably every one of them, to a man.
Obama now wants them set loose? He is mad as a meat-ax!
Either that or he is a terrorist sympathizer and a very dangeous man to have in the Oval Office.
I really do hope that you are right about this, but I still see the probability of there being even more ignorant voters and even more stupid voters in ‘12 than there were in ‘08. I also see leftists successfully finding ways of boosting their total support numbers and total voting numbers through: allowing illegal immigrants the right to vote in all future U.S. elections, allowing the majority of criminals to vote in all future U.S. elections, allowing profound suppression of all non-leftist communication through the full enactment of the Fairness Doctrine, and through allowing an increasing calibur of cheating to occur in order to truly get what they want done during each and every future U.S. election. Leftists may even decide to really end having any more elections, at some point in the future!
NObama is a genious, close gitmo......what a dumb@@@......
Hmmmm. So our only hope is to what? Eat a gun? Sorry, I’m an optimist...and I know it can be irritating to some.
William Ayers is a reformed terrorist. Perhaps we should send the Gitmo vermin to his class at UoC.
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