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| Former GITMO warden slams the Champ's 'catch'n release' program |
| 2016-02-22 |
| [Breitbart] During a radio interview on Sunday, Col. Michael Bumgarner, formerly the commander of the guard force at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, slammed President Obama for "throwing national security out the window" by continuing to release Gitmo detainees. Bumgarner said he was particularly dumbfounded by the release of Ibrahim al-Qosi, who went on to become one of the top leaders of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). Al-Qosi last December starred in an audio message urging deadly attacks on New York and Paris. The ex-warden also dished on al-Qaida expert bomb maker Tariq Mahmoud Ahmed Al Sawah, who reportedly became an important source to the U.S. and was released to the Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina last month. Bumgarner revealed that Sawah had his own private cottage inside Gitmo replete with a private garden. Sawah, described as becoming morbidly obese while in detention, was plied with "nonstop food," including his favored McDonalds Filet-O-Fish sandwiches. He was also rewarded with videos of Bond, an Australian/British string quartet consisting of scantily clad women, Bumgarner divulged. Bumgarner was speaking on "Aaron Klein Investigative Radio," broadcast on New York's AM 970 The Answer and Philadelphia's NewsTalk 990 AM. Klein serves as Breitbart's Jerusalem bureau chief and senior investigative reporter. He served from April 2005 through June 2006 as commander of the Joint Detention Group, the guard force component of the Joint Task Force at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo. Bumgarner says he believes Obama will try to achieve his long-stated goal of closing Gitmo before he leaves office but is the former guard leader is not sure whether the president will find countries willing to host the most dangerous of the detainees. |
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