Released Guantanamo Detainee Rejoins Al-Qaida

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"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."
http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/01/23/mideast/detainee.1-414168.php
 
KingCondanomation said:
"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."
http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/01/23/mideast/detainee.1-414168.php
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So Bush didn't keep us safe?
 
And what does this have to do with Obama?


The guy probably had political suction from the saudi's to get him out.
Weren't most of the 911 hijackers from Saudi?
 
KingCondanomation said:
"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."
http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/01/23/mideast/detainee.1-414168.php
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Maybe Watermark will offer to house him.
 
Only illustrates the fallacy of having the military chase criminals.

If they didn't have sufficient evidence to hold him or charge him with a CRIME, what was the alternative, hold him forever?

Too bad we aren't smart enough to follow the advice of the Rand Corporation and fight CRIME with law enforcement, not the military.
 
KingCondanomation said:
Cute, I didn't say Obama released him, it's just a point that in closing down Guantanamo, let's be sure to not just let people go.
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Guantanamo is just the poster child for our military detention/torture centers. We've got lots of 'em in lots of countries, and I'm sure many who are Guantanamo now will end up being tortured/held somewhere else under our control.
 
Damocles said:
For many of them, their nations refuse to take them back. We'll let them go at your house. I'm sure they'd be pleased to have targets so close by.

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If their own nations won't take them back, then i'm sure that there is an island somewhere out there in the pacific they can be dropped off at to make their own nation.
 
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