Close down Gitmo! Bring the prisoners stateside!
“Jordan: Four arrested for terror plots,” from the Jerusalem Post, May 29 (thanks to all who sent this in):
Four Jordanians arrested in Jordan in April had planned to perpetrate terror attacks in Israel in retaliation for Operation Cast Lead, DPA reported on Wednesday.
According to the report, judicial sources told the news organization that the four were expected to be charged with illegal possession of arms.
The suspects were named as Sakhr Abu Zaid, Hassan Talaq, Mohammad Abu Ourah and Osama Abu Kabir, the report continued, adding that Abu Kabir had been incarcerated at Guantanamo Bay prison for several years.
The IDF launched Operation Cast Lead in December 2008 in an effort to stop incessant Palestinian rocket fire against southern Israel. Over 1,000 Palestinians – many of them gunmen – were killed during the operation. Ten IDF soldiers and three Israeli civilians were also killed….