It appears that yet another Guantanamo Bay-alumnus has taken up arms following his release, this time in Russia, according to the Seattle-Post Intelligencer:
A man who was held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba has been detained on suspicion of involvement in attacks on police last month in southern Russia, a senior prosecutor said Friday.Relatives and lawyers confirmed that Rasul Kudayev, a Russian who was released from Guantanamo last year, had been detained and insisted the charges have been fabricated.
Deputy Prosecutor General Nikolai Shepel said witnesses, along with Kudayev's own confessions, confirmed his involvement in preparing and carrying out the Oct. 13 attacks on government and law enforcement offices in Nalchik, the capital of the troubled Kabardino-Balkariya region.
At least 139 people died in the nearly simultaneous daytime assaults on law enforcement offices, including the 94 accused attackers, according to official tallies. Shepel said more than 40 people have been detained on suspicion of involvement.
Alexandra Zernova, a lawyer for Kudayev, said that her client was physically too weak to participate in the attacks and said he had been tortured into confessing.
Kudayev was imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay after being captured in Afghanistan and linked to the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, a terror group with alleged ties to al-Qaida.
Kudayev must be one of those poor untried civilians being tortured at Guantanamo that Amnesty International and Jimmy Carter keep talking about.
The US military discovered the bodies of a few Russian Muslims after bombing camps occupied by Ansar il-Islam though most terrorists survived by escaping to Iran. I heard unconfirmed reports that Special Ops and the Bashmerga captured a few Chechens, which were later released by the Kurds to Iran. Basically, the Kurds after the war did not want to detain anybody except few senior Baathist implicated in the atrocities. The American Special Ops did not have any contingency to detain, to process or to vent them, and they had to release them because the Kurds would not detain them.
Thousands of Special Republican Guards, party senior members, and Fadyeen were released in May 2003 to join the ranks of the insurgency.
Why would this surprise anyone? Once a jihadist , always a jihadist...
Compare the MSM coverage of this to the Koran flushing story.
Hello! He was there for a reason. Captured on the battlefield. This is no surprise. We here know the outcome, where is our intelligence? Buy a gun now, the time is coming.