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| Being a terrorist means never having to say you’re sorry - Yemen frees 92 Al Qaeda |
| 2003-11-16 |
| SAN’A, Yemen (AP) - Yemen’s government on Sunday freed 92 followers of the al-Qaida terrorist network who have repented, a Yemeni judge responsible for dialogue with suspected terrorists said. Of course, there’s no WAY Judge Bin Laden could be in any way sympathetic to these guys. They were freed along with 1,500 other inmates as part of an amnesty during the Ramadan holy month, said the judge, Hammoud al-Hitar. ’Tis The Season To Be Bombing, fa-la-la-la. He added that 65 detainees suspected of terror-related crimes, including suspects in the bombing of the USS Cole in October 2000, would be put on trial after Ramadan. Al-Hitar heads a committee that encourages terrorists to renounce violence. He told The Associated Press that the 92 al-Qaida suspects, all of them arrested since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States, had repented and promised to obey Yemen’s constitution and laws. No, really. We promise to be good. Really. Say, where’s that shipment of NORK missiles we ordered? They declared they would respect "the rights of non-Muslims, their lives, money, and (promised) not to target embassies of friendly countries," al-Hitar said. I guess attacking ’unfriendly’ embassies [i.e., United States] will be fine The dialogue with the detained terror suspects began at the end of last year. At least 70 repentant militants have been released by Yemen in the last two years. Gee, I wonder where all those ’insurgents’ in Iraq keep popping up from? AP-ES-11-16-03 2023EST Hope i’m doing this right |
| Posted by:4thInfantryVet |
| #1 Being a terrorist means never having to say you’re sorry - Yemen frees 92 Al Qaeda Yemen’s government on Sunday freed 92 followers of the al-Qaida terrorist network who have repented, a Yemeni judge responsible for dialogue with suspected terrorists said. On the contrary - in Yemen, all they have to do is say they're sorry (without having to actually mean it). |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2003-11-16 11:29:31 PM |