Under pressure to release Gitmo detainees, President Bush released a big one and it's come back and bite us in the ass:
The emergence of a former Guantánamo Bay detainee as the deputy leader of Al Qaeda’s Yemeni branch has underscored the potential complications in carrying out the executive order President Obama signed Thursday that the detention center be shut down within a year.Nice, it appears that Saudi rehab program worked just fine. I'd imagine it went something like this:
The militant, Said Ali al-Shihri, is suspected of involvement in a deadly bombing of the United States Embassy in Yemen’s capital, Sana, in September. He was released to Saudi Arabia in 2007 and passed through a Saudi rehabilitation program for former jihadists before resurfacing with Al Qaeda in Yemen.
His status was announced in an Internet statement by the militant group and was confirmed by an American counterterrorism official.
Saudi Rep: Ali, the rabid dogs in the US have released you to us. We will alllow you to go free so long as you perform your terror acts against them and not the kingdom. Do you agree?The NY Times is carrying Obama's water on this because they know full-well that he can't just close Gitmo and send the detainees to all corners of the Earth. It sounded like a good idea back last January in Iowa but now , this January in DC, not so much. The Times knows this and gave him an out. All liberals read the Times and all Liberals still believe what the Times says so they do a story on this guy who was released by Bush, they get to slam the former president and let the world know that Obama is trying to keep his word (through some murky plan) but it could be a problem so give The One some time. They're giving him cover.
Ali al-Shihri: Yes, I agree. Just attack the Great Satan and Zionist pigs but not any Saudi interests.
Saudi Rep: Good, here' $1-million to get you rehabilitated in Aden.
Suppose Obama closes Gitmo and one of the detainees he releases comes back to attack America, he'll be destroyed politically and the Times knows that so they run this story and make sure everyone knows that it was a Bush release who is back on the battlefield.
More here, here, here and here where some misguided lefty thinks the Times is in cahoots with the military.
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It's a nice theory, Scott. The only problem is that the main sources for the New York Times story --- as well as articles last month claiming dozens of ex-Gitmo detainees are back in terrorist business --- are military officers, hardly the "liberals" that you suspect of planting this piece.
CNN has an update "Experts doubt Pentagon claims" on ex-Gitmo detainees. Analysis is at http://enduringamerica.com/2009/01/24/obama-the-pentagon-and-the-willy-nilly-battle-over-guantanamo-bay/
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