Posted on 01/27/2009 5:31:22 PM PST by Red in Blue PA
As President Obama pushes for the closure of Guantanamo Bay prison, the debate over where to house the terror detainees being held there is heating up.
An exclusive video of a former Gitmo detainee's martyrdom tape, obtained by FOX News, is a reminder of the concerns that terror suspects — who have been held but released from Guantanamo Bay — are increasingly returning to the fight against the United States and its allies.
Abdallah Ali al-Ajmi was transferred back to his home country of Kuwait after his release from Guantanamo in 2005. Last April he blew himself up in a homicide attack that killed 12 people in Mosul, Iraq.
Al-Ajmi, known in Guantanamo as Detainee 220, made his martyrdom tape before the attack.
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Plans to close Gitmo anger 9/11 victims’ families
AP via WTOP.com News ^ | January 20, 2009 - 3:32am | By BEN FOX,
Posted on January 20, 2009 2:48:21 AM PST by Cindy
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) - Plans to close Guantanamo are not sitting well with the Sept. 11 victims’ relatives who sat stunned while two alleged terrorists declared they were proud of their role in the plot.
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That story is different than this one.
This plus today’s Reuters story in which the Taliban thank Odumbo for closing Gitmo.
Yes it is.
Totally untrue. I’ve read every word the usurper has spoken on the subject, and he hasn’t got a care in the world. The affirmative action president is completely comfortable with the release of Gitmo terrorists - no fears, no concerns, no worries.
Wait for it...
A narrative will begin to form in the coming days that will spread throughout the MSM and will then become conventional wisdom:
(1) Detainees released from Guantanamo were not terrorists to begin with, merely innocent lambs picked up in Bush’s illegal War on Terror;
(2) their confinement at Guantanamo radicalized them and turned them against the U.S.;
So, in effect, WE made these terrorists at Guantanamo (specifically, Bush made these guys terrorists). Thus, it’s our fault for allowing Bush’s “gulag” to operate in the first place.
Now that Obama will be closing Guantanamo, there will be no more lambs-turned-into-wolves, and so we can expect that the closing of this facility will go a long way towards helping us regain the respect of the Muslim world and — consequently — go 90% of the way towards helping us win the War on “Challenges”.
Pay close attention...
Closing Gitmo is disaster to our national security.
Maybe some Hollywood type can make a video of their own to release, asking all the terrorists to PLEASE forgive us for our past.
.....cause y'know, they all loved us before the Evil Booosh!
Don’t detain any of the jihadis. Shoot ‘em in the head first and foremost, and be done with it.
The Libs will say his treatment at Gitmo caused him to become a suicide bomber. So of course it is all “Bush’s fault.”
Its all Obamas Now.
As I said on another thread, send them all to Florence ADX and be done with it. They will regret the day they left Gitmo.
House the whole bunch in the Rockies. Close Gitmo so the whole controversy just disappears.
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