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| US strike in Yemen kills former Guantanamo Bay detainee |
| 2017-03-08 |
| [Ynet] The Pentagon said on Monday that a March 2 strike against al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula ...the latest incarnation of various Qaeda and Qaeda-allied groups, including the now-defunct Aden-Abyan Islamic Army that boomed the USS Cole in 2000... (AQAP) in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... killed a former detainee from the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. "We can confirm the death of a former Guantanamo Bay detainee, Yasir al Silmi," said Navy Captain Jeff Davis, a Pentagon front man, adding al Silmi had been held at the detention center from 2002 to 2009. In a statement, the Pentagon added that he was also known as Mohammed Tahar and was repatriated from Guantanamo Bay in 2009 to Yemen. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 Obama bomber gets bombed. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-03-08 07:37 |
| #1 Would have been easier to kill him there. Sharks gotta eat too. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2017-03-08 07:14 |