Just when you think things couldn’t get crazier with Obama, on the heels of releasing 5 of the ‘worst of the worst’ terrorists from Gitmo, Obama is now releasing more terrorists for the most flimsy reasons you’ve ever heard:
– One because he took up yoga and read a biography of the Dalai Lama
– Another because he adopted a ‘positive attitude’
– And Osama Bin Laden’s personal bodyguard is to be released because he wants to start a “milk and honey farm”
The Periodic Review Board has cleared 78 of the remaining 149 prisoners for release and has more hearings scheduled for this summer. Many of these guys were once classified as ‘forever prisoners’ because of the threat they posed.
30% of those released has returned to fight against us – this report is by Obama’s own director of national intelligence.
Desperate to empty the Guantanamo Bay prison by the end of his term, Obama quietly is giving “get out of jail free” cards for the flimsiest of excuses.
One al Qaeda suspect captured in Afghanistan is considered reformed because he took up yoga and read a biography of the Dalai Lama. Another is eligible for release because of his “positive attitude.”
And one longtime detainee, a former bodyguard for Osama bin Laden, is now harmless because he’s going to start a “milk and honey farm.”
The Periodic Review Board already helped clear 78 of the remaining 149 prisoners for release, documents show, and has scheduled more hearings for this summer.
Many of these men were dubbed “forever prisoners” because of the threat they posed to the US — with intelligence officials warning that, if free, they would return to the jihad to kill Americans.
Based on past cases, that’s a good bet.
In a report on detainee recidivism, Obama’s own director of national intelligence this year documented that 178, or 29 percent, of the 614 prisoners already transferred from the prison have been confirmed to have, or are suspected of having, re-engaged in terrorism.
That means for every three freed from Gitmo, one has rejoined the war against us. Intelligence analysts admit their ability to track all former detainees is limited, so the recidivism rate may, in fact, be much higher.
One notorious recidivist, Abdullah Gulam Rasoul, became the Taliban’s operations commander in southern Afghanistan soon after his 2007 release from Gitmo. He was blamed for masterminding a surge in roadside attacks against American troops and organizing assaults on US aircraft in Afghanistan.
Another repeat terrorist is Said Ali al-Shihri, who after his 2007 release ran al Qaeda’s Yemeni branch and helped plan the deadly bombing of the US Embassy there.
Already, one of the five Taliban leaders freed last week in exchange for Bergdahl — Mullah Noorullah Noori — has pledged to return to fight Americans in Afghanistan.
Obama’s terrorist parole board was established in 2011. He appoints its members — officials from the Justice Department, Pentagon, State Department and Homeland Security — without a congressional confirmation process. It is secretive and lacking in accountability.
In setting up the Periodic Review Board, meanwhile, Obama prohibited members from relying on information that has been obtained as a result of “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment (in order) to support a determination that continued law of war detention is warranted for a detainee.”
The bias against interrogation evidence potentially opens up the release of some of Gitmo’s hardest cases, including al Qaeda leader Abu Zubaydah, 2002 Bali bombing mastermind “Hambali,” and Mohammed al-Qahtani, the suspected 20th hijacker of the 9/11 attacks.
But these releases won’t cause the same outcry, because it’s being done in virtual secrecy. Already, more than 600 prisoners have been transferred out of Gitmo with little fanfare. Two hundred of them were sent back to Afghanistan.
As defense lawyer David Remes explained to Al Jazeera news network, “The Periodic Review Board is likely to be predisposed to approval to transfer because the idea here is to close down Guantanamo.”
our men died looking for these bastards and now they are coming back home with missing body parts and these bastards are leaving here in better care than when they arrived,with the best care and our vets can,t even see a doctor for months.wtf is wrong with this country?people,unite and get these $#%&!@*s out of office
Is the “war” over ???? No one is opposed to bringing all our men home, except Obama and Hillary and friends at Benghazi.WHEN the “war” is over is when they should have sent the Taliban Dream team away,except the HAGUE wanted them for crimes !!!
smoking opium and yoga, Hell is mind is messed up enough without yoga
Obama is on the side of the terrorists. He might be one.
free your mind and your ass will follow, very weak president
I said it from day 1. That so called man is no good.
put him in an institution,that is where he belongs!
Should put Obama in his place..
Obama does not like Americans. Obama is for the Islamists! He was raised as a Moslem in his childhood. He attended schools that only Moslems Indonesian citizens were allowed to attend. He entered the United States at ten years old and no where is there a record of him having a valid passport. He was not properly vetted to become president because someone? paid millions of dollars to have his records sealed. As president, he outs a CIA agent working in Afghanistan in behalf of America; then right before the eyes of the world, Obama uses the release of five well seasoned Taliban warriors to get the release of an Islamic sympathizer, who also may have been an Islamist BEFORE he deserted and may now be trained as a suicide bomber. He will be coming back to live next door to Americans! Moslems=7 Americans=0!! These seasoned Taliban leaders will be responsible for MANY American deaths in the future. Now, Oliver North is claiming not only did the United States government turn well seasoned Taliban generals back to the Taliban but also paid out to another terrorist organization 6 million dollars to boot! That is aiding America’s enemies strategically and financially ! TREASON! As I’ve said in the past, Obama is staging the most megalomaniacal endeavor possible—the takeover and institution of his childhood governance in America—Islamic take over in America; complete with Sharia Law- ,—and no one even sees it coming!!!
Bull$#%&!@*!