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| Guantanamo ex-inmate arrives in Kuwait | |
| 2009-10-10 | |
[Al Arabiya Latest] A Kuwaiti man held at Guantanamo Bay for nearly eight years arrived in his country early Friday after a U.S. judge cleared him of terror charges, Kuwait News Agency reported.
"Imam!" Khaled al-Mutairi, 34, was sent to the U.S. naval base in southern Cuba after being arrested in Pakistan in 2001. He was picked up after traveling to Afghanistan with a charitable organization to build mosques and provide funds for schools and orphanages. Really. He wuz pure as the driven snow. He was an accredited representative of the Widows' and Orphans' Ammunition Fund and the founder of the Mahfooz School for Unwed Turbans. "Khaled al-Mutairi has been released at 4:00 o'clock this afternoon," Kuwait Ambassador in Washington Sheikh Salem Abdullah al-Jaber al-Sabah told KUNA. Mutairi "was transferred from Guantanamo to Kuwait in a private airplane and he is in good health condition and shall arrive (in Kuwait) tomorrow afternoon," Sheikh Salemsaid. With the release of Mutairi, three Kuwaiti nationals are still detained in the United States: Fuad al-Rebee'a, Fayez al-Kandari and Fawzi Aa-Odah. The Kuwaiti government had recently completed a state-of-the-art rehabilitation center to provide detainees with access to education, medical care, group discussions and physical exercise to help them recover from their long ordeal in Guantanamo, KUNA reported. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #10 I don't want to know about such people, Procopius2k. But they aren't likely to wander into the homes of returned jihadis to check out the possibilities like they go to African orphanages, so I feel pretty confident about my imaginary conversation, ten years in the future. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-10-10 23:52 |
| #9 Ah, the late and much missed Hatfield. |
| Posted by: lotp 2009-10-10 21:29 |
| #8 That's a matter of faith, Redneck Jim. Jimmy here's a site you should visit, the product was invented by a friend of mine and tested by Dr. Hatfield (a person of interest) and carried by Special Forces. |
| Posted by: .5MT 2009-10-10 18:11 |
| #7 You sure TW? I suspect some Hollyweird debutant would take o'Mahmoudullah just for the coup points she'd get from her community. It's not like its terrorism terrorism. Why Ms. G (she who's name will not be said) is not tied at the moment. [Yeah, I know its cruel to o'Mahmoudullah, but since its not Gitmo, it's OK]. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2009-10-10 17:52 |
| #6 That's a matter of faith, Redneck Jim. The key question that needs to be asked, is whether the bit about the 72 virgins really is a misreading of 72 white raisins, also very desirable to a desert people, but the resulting pleasures are of a very different nature. Not to mention God/Allah's true judgement on the deliberate murder of innocents as opposed to warriors. As it happens, the Sunni jihadis are going through that second discussion now, no doubt because so many have been helped around the world to achieve the martyrdom they claimed to so avidly desire -- easily 50,000 since 9/11/01 as far as I've been able to tell, and probably closer to six figures, which speaks only to those killed and not to the no doubt equally many wounded who dragged themselves home to be a burden on their families and communities. ("And this is your Uncle Mahmoudullah, dear. Shhh! He smells that way because of those bits that got shot off when he went a-jihading against the Westerners. His hand? All the men in our family are colour blind, you know, and he was assigned to assemble IEDs... No, of course he didn't know. Shirts are white, pants are dark, and shopping is the job of females; why tell the dears something that would upset them? We weren't to know there'd be consequences for that! No, we can't marry him off -- not even Drooling Fatima's father would take that, not even with a substantial bride price, and she's thirty.") And the Muslim world, the ummah, Dar al Islam, have discovered the hard way -- Yo, Saudi Arabia! I'm talkin' ta you! -- that little takfiri jihadis turn it on their neighbors as happily as they do the kafirs of the Dar al Harb. Which, of course, is why Kuwait has built that fancy rehabilitation center-cum-high security prison, as Rambler pointed out. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-10-10 15:27 |
| #5 OK,Tyranysaurus Clomorong6736 (Fake name) Has ANY Muslim died and seen Allah then come back to talk about it? No, Christianity has one. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2009-10-10 14:23 |
| #4 "Think not of those who are slain in Allah's way as dead. Nay, they live, finding their sustenance from their Lord. They rejoice in the Bounty provided by Allah...the glory in the fact that on them is no fear, nor have they (cause to) grieve. They rejoice in the Grace and the Bounty from Allah, and in the fact that Allah suffereth not the reward of the Faithful to be lost (in the least)." (3:169-71) |
| Posted by: Tyranysaurus Clomorong6736 2009-10-10 14:15 |
| #3 Nah, he sounds like the one who makes Boom Belts and sends others to their reward Or does Allah exist except in their diseased minds? |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2009-10-10 14:04 |
| #2 The Kuwaiti government had recently completed a state-of-the-art rehabilitation center to provide detainees with access to education, medical care, group discussions and physical exercise to help them recover from their long ordeal in Guantanamo, KUNA reported. The only difference between the Kuwaiti facility and Gitmo is that Gitmo doesn't allow group discussions. And both are better than the lives of most people in many Muslim countries. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2009-10-10 13:53 |
| #1 Sounds like a fine upstanding young man. How long before he straps on a boom vest? |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2009-10-10 11:38 |