Prisonor Releases Continue
It is strange that this is a cause for Obama. In his State of the Union Address Tuesday night, Obama pledged to continue “working to shut down the prison at Guantánamo,” claiming it serves as a “recruitment brochure for our enemies.”
A recent Politifact review found that Guantánamo is not a “key component” of jihadist recruitment. Groups such as the Islamic State rarely discuss the facility in their propaganda magazine, Dabiq, or through their various multimedia endeavors.
It seems that the optics of the situation are what drives the president more than a logical rationale, and there is no indication that the detainees have had any change of heart whatever in their desire to wage war on the West. But Obama takes council from no one, and so the releases are going forward under the direction of the president.
There are now only 93 detainees at the Guantanamo detention center.
The detainees released are: Fahed Abdullah Ahmad Ghazi, Samir Naji al-Hasan Muqbil, Adham Mohamed Ali Awad, Mukhtar Yahya Naji al-Warafi, Abu Bakr Ibn Muhammad al-Ahdal, Muhammad Salih Husayn al-Shaykh, Muhammad Said Salim Bin Salman, Said Muhammad Salih Hatim, Umar Said Salim al-Dini, and Fahmi Abdallah Ahmad Ubadi al-Tulaqi.
Some of the aforementioned men were associated with Al Qaeda and/or had close ties to Osama Bin Laden’s inner circle, according to leaked files.
Speaking at a ceremony at U.S. Southern Command, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Thursday that the U.S. is “diligently” working “to close this chapter in our history.”
Lee Wolosky, a State Department envoy who negotiates transfers, told the media that the Administration will work to release 40 more of the alleged terrorists by this summer.
The president is fortunate that he will not have to interact with the men who are being released. Unfortunately, that cannot be said for our soldiers in the field, and perhaps even the men and women of Europe or the U.S. who may see these killers back on the streets carrying out further attacks rather than being safely help in prison where they surely belong.
Source: Breitbart.com
Previous releases have shown that there was good reason for their detention.
In 2010, Ibrahim al Qosi was handed a plea-bargain and was sent from Gitmo to Sudan.
After a short stint in Sudanese prison, Ibrahim al Qosi was released. The American people were told things like he was just bin Laden’s cook, and that he was low level. The excuses for releasing prisoners like him were endless.
This week Ibrahim al Qosi appeared in an al-Qaeda video. In fact, this low-level cook appeared in an al-Qaeda video where he was starring as an al-Qaeda leader. It appears that Ibrahim al Qosi has achieved the American dream and risen from lowly to cook to leader of al-Qaeda in Yemen.
Ibrahim al Qosi was too “lowly” for us to bother with, and making him uncomfortable was a unfashionable in Washington D.C. The Jihadists overseas, however, seemed to think he was good enough to lead their fight against Saudi Arabia.
Source: truthandaction.org
Intelligence reports reveal that many [detainees] rejoin terrorist missions after leaving the military prison. In fact, Judicial Watch has been reporting this for years. Back in 2010 JW wrote about a report that the Director of National Intelligence gave Congress documenting that 150 former Gitmo detainees were confirmed or suspected of “reengaging in terrorist or insurgent activities after transfer.” At least 83 remained at large, according to the document.
Ibrahim al-Rubaysh is the poster child for the Saudi rehab’s failures. He’s a dangerous Al Qaeda operative based in Yemen and now, years after freeing him, the United States wants him captured. This month the State Department indicated he is a “senior leader” of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. “He serves as a senior advisor for AQAP operational planning and is involved in the planning of attacks,” a State Department announcement says. “He has served as a senior AQAP sharia official since 2013, and as a senior AQAP sharia official, al-Rubaysh provides the justification for attacks conducted by AQAP. In addition, he has made public statements, including one in August 2014 where he called on Muslims to wage war against the United States.”
The U.S. government has also offered a $5 million reward for information that could lead to al-Rubaysh’s capture.
Source: truthandaction.org
Obama released 4 prisoners from Guantanamo in November, including Mohammed Zahir, an intelligence chief and arms dealer known to have Stinger missiles and uranium “for a nuclear device” when he was arrested in Afghanistan.
Despite the fact that Zahir was once considered a top Taliban intelligence official and leading Taliban weapons supplier, somehow he had his threat level reduced dramatically, which led to he and 3 others being flown to Afghanistan and released.
The detainee was arrested on suspicion of possessing weapons including Stinger missiles and uranium, which detainee’s recovered documents indicate was intended for use in a nuclear device,” read Zahir’s official Guantanamo file, which was leaked by the Wikileaks hacker group.
It seems to defy logic that a man with such a reputation would would have all of the terrorism accusations discarded and be “considered a low-level operative at best”.
Source: truthandaction.org
We need to try Obama for treason and hanging the act of treason the punishment is death