The Washington Post, 30 Dec, 2009, “Former Guantanamo Detainees Fuel Growing Al-Qaeda Cell,“ by Sudarsan Raghavan, said: “Former detainees of the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have led and fueled the growing assertiveness of the al-Qaeda branch that claimed responsibility for the attempted Christmas Day bombing of a U.S. airliner, potentially complicating the Obama administration’s efforts to shut down the facility.
They include two Saudi nationals: al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’s deputy leader, Said al-Shihri, and the group’s chief theological advisor, Ibrahim Suleiman al Rubaish. Months after their release to Saudi Arabia, both crossed the kingdom’s porous border into Yemen and rejoined the terrorist network.”
The terrorist group led by former Guantanamo (Gitmo to all who served there) detainees equipped and trained the Nigerian bombing suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutalla has to raise questions on plans to close Gitmo and return those prisoners to their home countries. Another six Yemenis were released last week, and there are now 80 Yemenis left at Guantanamo.
Reports on the number of “Enemy Combatants” at Gitmo are reported to be over 200 and many are heavily radicalized by their capture, imprisonment, and association with hard core extremists. Since 2002, more than 550 “Enemy combatants” captured in Afghanistan and sent to Gitmo have been released.
Well now, before I could get this into Poliquicks.com, New York Daily News reports on 31 Dec 2009, that the 91 Yemeni “Enemy Combatants” at Gitmo scheduled to be released are being looked at by the Obama administration as to whether that’s a good idea or not.
It’s not a good idea.
We’ll see.
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I believe Obama and Holder are Islam sympathizers or awfully naive at best. As such they jeopardize the security of the country by not recognizing the fact that we are at war with Islam. I say with Islam because radical Islam is funded through Islam mosques and clerics. Zakat, an Islamic system of tithing is the source of these revenues. Closing of Guantanamo would be a simple assertion of our weakness and release of many of these terrorists would result in the death of more Americans.