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| Two ex-Gitmo inmates appear in Al-Qaeda video | ||
| 2009-01-25 | ||
One of the two former inmates, a Saudi man identified as Abu Sufyan al-Azdi al-Shahri, or prisoner number 372, has been elevated to the senior ranks of Al-Qaeda in Yemen, a US counter-terrorism official told AFP.
A Pentagon spokesman, Commander Jeffrey Gordon, on Saturday declined to confirm the SITE information. "We remain concerned about ex-Guantanamo detainees who have re-affiliated with terrorist organizations after their departure," said Gordon. "We will continue to work with the international community to mitigate the threat they pose," he said. On the video, al-Shihri is seen sitting with three other men before a flag of the Islamic State of Iraq, the front for Al-Qaeda in Iraq. "By Allah, imprisonment only increased our persistence in our principles for which we went out, did jihad for, and were imprisoned for," al-Shihri was quoted as saying. Al-Shiri was transferred from Guantanamo to Saudi Arabia in 2007, the US counter-terrorism official said. The other men in the video are identified as Commander Abu Baseer al-Wahayshi and Abu Hureira Qasm al-Rimi (also known as Abu Hureira al-Sana'ani). The Defense Department has said as many as 61 former Guantanamo detainees -- about 11 percent of 520 detainees transferred from the detention center and released -- are believed to have returned to the fight. The latest case highlights the risk the new US administration faces as it moves to empty Guantanamo of its remaining 245 prisoners and close the controversial detention camp within a year. | ||
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #4 Capital punishment has to fall on ANYONE who participates in jihad terror. Any other legal approach is a joke. |
| Posted by: Bill Shaith5362 2009-01-25 14:37 |
| #3 If they're unlawful combattants, as the government's been saying, just shoot 'em. That will send the clearest, most unambiguous message possible, one even these morons can understand. In the future, catch 'em, wring 'em dry, then shoot 'em. Bury them in the bottom of a sewage settling pond for later generations to dig up and ponder. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2009-01-25 14:03 |
| #2 If a Caribbean vacation with gourmet chicken meals hasn't affected their appreciation of American justice, then nothing will. Remote controlled exploding micro-chips upon release, after tracking them to the jihadi nest but implanted on the lawless international waters enroute seems like a good legal compromise to me. |
| Posted by: ThealingBorgia122 2009-01-25 11:07 |
| #1 And then you have that idiot cartoonist Mike Lukovich in Atlanta who has Bin Laden telling one of them who has just been released "that after being unjustly imprisoned and torture you still don't like America." In other words all these jihadi's who go to AQ after being released are innocents that got religion at our expense in Gitmo. Sicko and Blotto idiots of the media. |
| Posted by: Jack is Back! 2009-01-25 10:32 |