“Being in a war and being on vacation is two different things. Do you really think they were on vacation? They were picked up as enemy combatants.”
I’ve got no problem with people captured on the battlefield fighting, but U.S. troops captured only about 5% of the “enemy combatants.”
Ibrahim Sen: Held in Guantanamo Bay from February 2002 until November 8, 2003. Released to Turkey because U.S. officials reportedly could not find strong evidence tying him to al Qaeda. Has since been arrested twice in Turkey and charged with leading an al Qaeda cell.
Abdullah Mahsud (above): Freed to Pakistan in March 2004. Later that year, he ‘kidnapped two Chinese engineers and claimed responsibility for an Islamabad hotel bombing’, according to a report by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency. Blew himself up in 2007 after being accused of orchestrating a suicide attack which killed 31.
Abdallah Salih al Ajmi: Freed to Kuwait in 2005. Three years later he blew himself up in the Iraqi city of Mosul, killing seven people.
Ibrahim Qosi (above): Freed in 2012 to Sudan. Two years later, became a leader in al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and has been featured in the terror group’s videos. The group has a at least three other senior members who were in Guantanamo and freed. It has taken credit for a string of international terror attacks, including the Charlie Hebdo shooting in 2015 and the attempted Christmas Day ‘underwear’ bombing in 2009.