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US fears freed Gitmo prisoners could join Qaeda
[Al Arabiya Latest] The United States has refused to send Yemeni "enemy combatants" held at Guantanamo Bay back to their home country over fears they could join the local al-Qaeda movement, press reports said on Tuesday.
Even Bambi and Holder are smart enough to understand that if a single released Gitmo thug commits a terrorist act that kills an American, the Bambi presidency is over ...
Only if the incident occurs at home. Those who go abroad are viewed as accepting the risk.
Although U.S. President Barack Obama promised in January to close the controversial prison it was still unclear what would happen to the 240 detainees currently being held in Cuba.

Ninety-six of the 240 prisoners come from Yemen, the poorest and most backwards unstable country in the Gulf, but according to France's Le Figaro newspaper, the U.S. administration has refused to send them back home for fears they would rally jihadists and multiply terrorist attacks.Attempts to contact the White House for confirmation were unanswered.

"Yemen has become a refuge for jihadists" warned general David Petraeus, the highest ranking American military official in the Middle East.

At the start of 2009. Yemen's local al-Qaeda group fused with its Saudi Arabian branch, raising fears a "new Afghanistan" would emerge in its southern frontier following suicide attacks that killed four South Korean tourists.

Two of the top most wanted Saudis were arrested in March, near Taez in the South of Sanaa but there are concerns that hundreds of wanted men tracked by Riyadh have sought refuge beyond the 1,300 kilometer (about 800 miles) frontier between the neighboring countries.

Le Figaro reported that in early April a cave was discovered stocked with weapons, ropes and cameras and said members of al-Qaeda mastermind Osama Bin Laden's family not only used Yemen as a "base for al-Qaeda operations" but also contributed to "terrorist training and the facilitation of their movements."
Posted by: Fred 2009-06-03
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