Two men released from the US “war on terror” prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba have appeared in a video posted on a jihadist website, the SITE monitoring service reported.
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.
Three other men appear in the video, including Abu al-Hareth Muhammad al-Oufi, identified as an Al-Qaeda field commander. SITE later said he was prisoner No. 333.
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.
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“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.
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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.
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# 31 Uncle Dave said, “Paddy, you’re kidding, right?
“Wait ’till the war is over then release them.”
I don’t know. Do YOU think it is a crime punishable by jail time to abduct people and hold them without trial for indefinite periods of time? Do you think a President who does those things should be tried and thrown in jail…?
#34: Yes. Yes. But that wasn’t what I was talking about. Perhaps now you can comment on what I did say.
# 35 Uncle Dave said, “#34: Yes. Yes.”
Cool, so FDR & Bush should have been jailed. Glad you agree.
Now, it will end as soon as we decide to end it. Bush prolonged it. Obama seems bent on the same thing, prolong the conflict. Of course, with the Oil companies & eco-nuts in play it is hard to disengage totally from the mid East.
This shows that American prisons are a big failure.
#36 – Paddy-RAMBO
>>Cool, so FDR & Bush should have been
>>jailed. Glad you agree.
Oh, Paddy-RAMBO, you’re so smooth. Nobody saw that switcheroonie coming from a mile away. They train you guys real good down the ‘Shack.
Whether FDR should have been jailed or not is debatable. He came to regret what he did, and billions of dollars were paid to the Japanese-American victims by the US Government as a result. Besides, FDR is dead.
I think everyone agrees that the WWII internment was one of the biggest stains on FDR’s legacy.
Dumbya, on the other hand, is alive (if you can call him a life form) and well, and proud as Milosevic about what he did in Gitmo. No shame, no sorrow, no billions in reparations.
I think we can ALL agree wholeheartedly that Dumbya (and his puppeteers) should all do some hard time in the slammer.
Great to see that you’re coming around, Paddy-RAMBO. We’ll make a patriot out of you yet.
#36 – Paddy-RAMBO
>>Bush prolonged it.
Bush did not prolong it, he STARTED it. No “enemy combatants” were held at Gitmo until Dumbya and Rummy started putting them there in October 2001. The Haitian and Cuban refugees were long gone, and they needed some clients to justify Halliburton’s planned ONE BILLION DOLLAR detention facility and security perimeter, which they announced in 2005.
So.
How long do you think Dumbya should get in the Big House, Paddy-RAMBO? 10 years? 20 years? Life? Woo, Dumbya in SuperMax. They can make one of those “Life on the Inside” shows about it.
Just for the record, here is California’s 8th district. Any suggestions on where to house them? I’m thinking the Cow Palace.
First off… this story is fake propaganda and you guys are suckers for helping to promote it.
Second, if it wasn’t fake, the whole idea of torture is NOT to gain information, but to radicalize the enemy. In that case, the goals would have been accomplished.
Both Sayyid Qutb (founder of the Muslim Brotherhood) and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (founder of the World Islamic Front for Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders, erroneously referred to as Al-Qaeda by feeble minded idiots that parrot CIA manufactured MSM propaganda) were BOTH extensively tortured for years before snapping and becoming radicals.
In order to fight wars of aggression, that are predicated on geopolitical interests, you need an enemy. If one doesn’t exist… you need to create it. Simple.
# 39 Mister Mustard said, “Bush did not prolong it, he STARTED it.”
Bush invaded the mid-East before 9-11. Okay. Adjust your meds please and let us know once that is done…
#42 “Bush invaded the mid-East before 9-11.”
Que Pasa? Do you mean 41 or 43?
#42 – Paddy-RAMBO
>>Bush invaded the mid-East before 9-11
Put on your spectacles, Paddy-RAMBO. What is it about you right wingnuts that compels you to put words in my mouth?
I said Bush started what we’re talking about here. You know, the topic of this thread? Putting enemy combatants in Gitmo, which you likened (in your failed attempt at subtle sleight-of-hand) to FDR putting Japanese-Americans in internment camps during WWII???
I never made any comment about the “mid-East”.
I said that Dumbya started “Gitmo”, as we know it today. A concentration camp.
44 Mister Mustard said, “I said Bush started what we’re talking about here.”
If you can recall through the drug induced haze; you commented on my conversion with U.D. regarding the war on terror in total.
Now, please let me know when you are off the drugs so I know when to start reading your comments again.
# 43 QB said, “Que Pasa? Do you mean 41 or 43?”
43. 41’s debacle is another part of the story…
#45, Cow-Paddy, Ignorant Shit Talking Sociopath, Retired Mall Rent-A-Cop, Pretend Constitutional Scholar, Fake California Labor Law Expert, Pseudo Military Historian, Phony Climate Scientist, and Real Leading Troll Extraordinaire,
If you can recall through the drug induced haze; you commented on my conversion with U.D. regarding the war on terror in total.
If you can recall in your schizophrenic mind, I asked some time ago for you to back up your comment that Pelosi wanted the Guantanamo prisoners brought to the US. Remember, you brought it up back in #22. Forget going off on a tangent, where is the background on your claim? Link please.
#42 “Bush invaded the mid-East before 9-11.”
Could you be a little more specific there big fella?
#45 – Paddy-RAMBO
>>If you can recall through the drug induced haze; you
>>commented on my conversion with U.D. blah blah blah
If you can’t keep track of what you’re saying, Paddy-RAMBO, you can’t expect others to do it for you.
What I commented on was your comment to UD in which you said (and I quote) “Cool, so FDR & Bush should have been jailed. Glad you agree.”, referring to the internment of Japanese-Americans and “enemy combatants” at US-run concentration camps.
You may have drifted off into some aside regarding who is responsible for hostilities in the “mid-East”, but that’s not what UD was commenting on, that’s not what you were responding to, and that’s not what I commented on.
Take your head out of your ass once in a while, Paddy-RAMBO. There’s more to life than pretending to be a hobnobber with high-level diplomats and beltway insider.
You’re a fucking counter boy at Radio Shack, for Christ’s sake.
# 47 Mr. Fusion said, “I’m incapable of using Google and I don’t follow current events but I argue about them like an idiot”
Here ya go. Even YOU should be able to proceed from here…
WALLACE: The president-elect is now talking about it possibly taking as long as the end of his first term to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay. Would you be disappointed if it took that long?
PELOSI: I don’t think it will. But he — you know, if somebody gives an outside date, it doesn’t mean you can’t do it sooner. But I’m pleased that he has said he will close Guantanamo.
#50, Cow-Paddy, Ignorant Shit Talking Sociopath, Retired Mall Rent-A-Cop, Pretend Constitutional Scholar, Fake California Labor Law Expert, Pseudo Military Historian, Phony Climate Scientist, and Real Leading Troll Extraordinare,
You didn’t post a link. You give some “quote” that we don’t know the players are nor do we know if they are being quoted correctly. You said IN #22:
Those hypocrites, like Pelosi, who want them in the US, hypocritically refuse them have them in their constituents area.
Nowhere in your reply did she say she wanted them in the US. So please, post a link confirming your claim. YOU CLAIMED IT, NOW BACK IT UP.
#50 – Paddy-RAMBO
>>Here ya go.
Naw, there he doesn’t go. As 41 was wont to say “there YOU go again”, answering a question that wasn’t asked.
Fusion asked for evidence to support your claim that Pelosi wanted Gitmo prisoners brought to the US. You replied with a non-answer quote, in which Pelosi says it’s nice that Obama is closing Gitmo, and if it can be done sooner, that will be great.
Do you ever give a straight answer to ANYTHING, Paddy-RAMBO, or are you too busy thinking up Walter Mitty-esque places you’ve gone and people you’ve met in the highest echelons of government and industry?
Cow-Paddy, Ignorant Shit Talking Sociopath, Retired Mall Rent-A-Cop, Pretend Constitutional Scholar, Fake California Labor Law Expert, Pseudo Military Historian, Phony Climate Scientist, and Real Leading Troll Extraordinare,
Further to #51, Spoken in a Back room, Radio Shack dialect with at least 20+ teeth missing.
C’mon, where are ya girl, here girl, c’mon. wheet wheet, c’mon girl.
I jes knew ya couln’t do it. I had ya pegged as a lying sack of Sus scrofa excrement.
#53 – Fusie
>>C’mon, where are ya girl, here girl, c’mon. wheet
>>wheet, c’mon girl.
Don’t hold your breath. Cow-Paddy, Ignorant Shit Talking Sociopath, Retired Mall Rent-A-Cop, Pretend Constitutional Scholar, Fake California Labor Law Expert, Pseudo Military Historian, Phony Climate Scientist, and Real Leading Troll Extraordinare RAMBO is a drive-by troll.
He posts his nonsense about his connections inside the beltway, claims that people said things they never said, tall tales about his business acumen, ad nauseum, and then just disappears into the woodwork until he imagines everyone has forgotten about his latest load of bullshit.
He must be on the payroll of John C. Dvorak, to increase the number of hits on this blog. I wonder if he’s the same guy as Jimbo “Jaime Colina” Hill and Fuckup “PROTEIN CELL” FedEx.
#54, Mustard,
Naa, I would have guessed he is probably Lyin’ Mike’s sister. Did you know their brother is an only child.
But I like the way you think.
They / she’ll be back after I start doing something more constructive.
If you can’t try them let them go. Regardless of whether they’re going to go back to being terrorists. It’s not like terrorist organizations have trouble recruiting, it’s a zero impact. Better still make detailed identification part of the ‘liberation’ deal that way we got detailed information on these people. Making them useless as terrorists (except as ‘heros’) and better yet our spies can keep tabs on them. See who they hang out with, proper espionage, intelligence, and surveillance is the proper way to wage war on terror.
those pictures look totally bogus
#57 I know what you mean. I expect something like “If you buy a new car from Crazy Abu now, we will throw in the undercoating for free!”
#57 & 58,
My first reaction was they were cheering for the Cardinals in the Super Bowl.
Cow-Paddy, Ignorant Shit Talking Sociopath, Retired Mall Rent-A-Cop, Pretend Constitutional Scholar, Fake California Labor Law Expert, Pseudo Military Historian, Phony Climate Scientist, and Real Leading Troll Extraordinare,
When are you going to answer the question? I want to see some proof that Pelosi wants the Guantanamo prisoners released onto American soil.
Where are you hiding?
Who was it that elevated them in rank? Cheney?
>let them go. Regardless of whether they’re going to go back to being terrorists. It’s not like terrorist organizations have trouble recruiting, it’s a zero impact.
BY that logic, they should never be captured.
>our spies can keep tabs on them.
Yes our vaunted spy network in the Middle East.