Comments on: Freed Gitmo Detainee Now Al Qaeda Chief

By: proreason

proreason — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:25:56 +0000

No need for rehab for the naughty scamps. They have suffered at bushhitler’s hands without habeas corpus or counsel from the aclu for 5 years, and so have paid their dues to sociey and must be allowed back to their popsicle delivery jobs.

By: Liberals Demise

Liberals Demise — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:18:36 +0000

But…but…but we don’t have any jihadist rehab program here. Wait, I know….lets see if Congress will build them one in John Murthas backyard. Why….they can sit around the camp fires and tell war stories and pull one anothers finger to see who can cut the loudest fart. Gee….that sounds “swell”, does it not?

By: BillK

BillK — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:13:26 +0000

But see, this was because Bush released him.

Obama will be much more careful about such things, releasing prisoners into the general US population rather than to Saudi Arabia…

By: Big E

Big E — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 22:05:17 +0000

“Is it to give him cover for not closing Gitmo as quickly as he had promised?”

No, it’s because the NYT cares deeply about the security of this country.

Eh, actually I’m thinking it’s probably more what you said.

By: retire05

retire05 — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:23:22 +0000

Eric Holder, Deputy Attorney General under the oh, so competent Janet Reno, and the person who facilitated the pardons for 16 terrorists and the arms dealer, Marc Rich seems to be highly sympathtic to terrorists.

Holder is/was a senior partner to Covington & Burling, LLC

http://www.cov.com/eholder

From Covington & Burling’s website:

“The firm represents 17 Yemeni nationals and one Pakistani citizen held at Guantanamo Bay”.

Covington & Burling also wrote an amicus brief in support of Hamden, in Hamden vs. Rumsfeld.

Add to that:

Former Gitmo detainee now head of AQ/Yemen

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01.....?ref=world

Now, don’t y’all feel a lot safer with Eric Holder as the new U.S. Attorney General?

By: proreason

proreason — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:54:04 +0000

Well, we already knew it, but it’s just further proof that the Slimes is, as SG puts it, the mouthpiece of the DNC, now renamed the ONC. If the Slimes was purely ideological, the cretins would never have published this. Like for Obamastein’s puppet-masters, ideology is critical to the Slimes, but not nearly as critical as power.

By: GuppyNblue

GuppyNblue — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:42:41 +0000

“The Yemeni branch of Al Qaeda has carried out a number of terrorist attacks over the past year, culminating in the assault on the American Embassy in Sana on Sept. 16.”

Any surviving family members should start raising funds to sue the ACLU for their participation in freeing this terrorist. The prisoners at Guantánamo are there for a reason. We can disagree on how to detain or interrogate them, but just setting them free results in people dying.

Like SG pointed out, the timing of the report is like a 5,000 lb purple polka-dotted gorilla in the room. It’s beyond suspect.

By: proreason

proreason — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:29:59 +0000

funny, but sadly close to the thinking of libtards. It’s all about the poverty you know.

By: caligirl9

caligirl9 — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:57:00 +0000

WTF? A jihadist rehabilitation program? Is it like a 12-step program? Rehab? Shock therapy? Antidepressants? Ritalin?

Now that’s an episode of “Intervention” I’d like to see: “My name is Hussein, I am a member of Al Qaeda.”

Family member: “I give him money for bombs because I don’t want him to go into prostitution or stealing or dealing drugs. Those things are illegal.”

Interventionist to family: “We have to make him hit bottom today. If he doesn’t go to treatment, what are the consequences?

By: 1laidbackRN

1laidbackRN — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:35:16 +0000

“Exactly what does a jihadist rehabilitation program look like?”

I believe it would look a lot like “summer camp” for terrorist. Hosted by our good friends the Saudi’s, and payed for by…..wait for it….. the good ole USA.

By: gipper

gipper — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:03:18 +0000

“…passed through a Saudi rehabilitation program for former jihadists…”

Exactly what does a jihadist rehabilitation program look like? It did not work. I guess the guy fell off the wagon.

By: 1laidbackRN

1laidbackRN — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:57:15 +0000

From the International Herald Tribune:

Guantánamo detainee resurfaces in terrorist group

By Robert F. Worth Published: January 23, 2009

BEIRUT: 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.”

http://www.iht.com/articles/20.....414168.php