Essentially this amounts to freeing jihad terrorists who are determined to kill Americans and sending them back to a place where they can kill Americans, with no consequences and no supervision. What could possibly go wrong?
“Obama to free Gitmo terrorist ‘because he took up yoga,’” by Paul Sperry, New York Post, June 7, 2014:
If you thought President Obama’s release of five top Taliban commanders in exchange for POW Bowe Bergdahl was bad, wait until you see what his Gitmo parole board plans.
Desperate to empty the Guantanamo Bay prison by the end of his term, Obama quietly is giving “get out of jail free” cards for the flimsiest of excuses.
One al Qaeda suspect captured in Afghanistan is considered reformed because he took up yoga and read a biography of the Dalai Lama. Another is eligible for release because of his “positive attitude.”
And one longtime detainee, a former bodyguard for Osama bin Laden, is now harmless because he’s going to start a “milk and honey farm.”
The Periodic Review Board already helped clear 78 of the remaining 149 prisoners for release, documents show, and has scheduled more hearings for this summer.
Many of these men were dubbed “forever prisoners” because of the threat they posed to the US — with intelligence officials warning that, if free, they would return to the jihad to kill Americans.
Based on past cases, that’s a good bet.
In a report on detainee recidivism, Obama’s own director of national intelligence this year documented that 178, or 29 percent, of the 614 prisoners already transferred from the prison have been confirmed to have, or are suspected of having, re-engaged in terrorism.
That means for every three freed from Gitmo, one has rejoined the war against us. Intelligence analysts admit their ability to track all former detainees is limited, so the recidivism rate may, in fact, be much higher.
Modal TriggerA detainee in an orange jumpsuit is seen being led by US Army military police.Photo: AP
One notorious recidivist, Abdullah Gulam Rasoul, became the Taliban’s operations commander in southern Afghanistan soon after his 2007 release from Gitmo. He was blamed for masterminding a surge in roadside attacks against American troops and organizing assaults on US aircraft in Afghanistan.
Another repeat terrorist is Said Ali al-Shihri, who after his 2007 release ran al Qaeda’s Yemeni branch and helped plan the deadly bombing of the US Embassy there.
Already, one of the five Taliban leaders freed last week in exchange for Bergdahl — Mullah Noorullah Noori — has pledged to return to fight Americans in Afghanistan.
Obama’s terrorist parole board was established in 2011. He appoints its members — officials from the Justice Department, Pentagon, State Department and Homeland Security — without a congressional confirmation process. It is secretive and lacking in accountability.
In setting up the Periodic Review Board, meanwhile, Obama prohibited members from relying on information that has been obtained as a result of “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment (in order) to support a determination that continued law of war detention is warranted for a detainee.”
The bias against interrogation evidence potentially opens up the release of some of Gitmo’s hardest cases, including al Qaeda leader Abu Zubaydah, 2002 Bali bombing mastermind “Hambali,” and Mohammed al-Qahtani, the suspected 20th hijacker of the 9/11 attacks.
But these releases won’t cause the same outcry, because it’s being done in virtual secrecy. Already, more than 600 prisoners have been transferred out of Gitmo with little fanfare. Two hundred of them were sent back to Afghanistan.
As defense lawyer David Remes explained to Al Jazeera news network, “The Periodic Review Board is likely to be predisposed to approval to transfer because the idea here is to close down Guantanamo.”…
Jay Boo says
It appears that Muhammad’s three jinn spirits have temporarily turned these guys away from jihad.
rev g says
Isn’t jihad the certain way to an afterlife in the land of milk and honey?
Ashley says
You’ve got to be kidding me. So, taking up yoga, reading a biography on the Dalai Lama, projecting a “positive attitude” and intending to launch a milk and honey farm indicates a reformed, repentant terrorist.
A subscription to Utne Reader should really wow the Gitmo parole board…
Salah says
America is doomed. The American people must wake up, understand the obvious, and actually DO something about it: the real enemy IS in the WH.
The same for the EU.
All peoples in the West must stand up and get rid of their PC traitors/leaders/elites/MSM/islamic supremacists/violent jihadists/stealth jihadists/sharia advocates.
That’s what we did in Egypt; no more radical Islam.
N.B. I know, there’s no such thing as moderate Islam, but that doesn’t matter, at least not for now. What really matters is what is actually happening on the ground: Political islam is dead.
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-end-of-muslim-brotherhood.html
Jay Boo says
“Political islam is dead.” unless we enable it
I suspect that the quickest ‘path to honor’ for a pious Muslim is to bring disgrace upon others including fellow Muslims.
This is why Islam will inevitably cannibalize itself no matter how much power it achieves.
In the meantime we must beware of these Gung Ho A-Ho Islamic Rat Dog Fools.
They will sell out their enemies and friends too.
Angemon says
So, the next time a former Gitmo detainee murders an american, whose hands will be bloodier?
John C. Barile says
Barry Soetoro’s.
Anushirvan says
Whatever an individual thinks in his or her own mind is ultimately known to the individual, and is not to be gleaned from any observable action taken, designed to make the observer project wishful thinking on the genuine intentions enclosed into the mind of such individuals. In the West we should stop pretending that we can conclusively posit dead certainties with regards to the future behavior of others, we should stop assuming that our overconfident take on things can predict it, we should stop thinking that we’re able to read someone else’s mind.
Muslims know that this will happen time and time again. That’s what Taqqiyya is all about ! The West makes these mistakes over and over again, on our head be it. When will this medieval superstition of mind reading come to a halt in the 21st Century ? How many people will have to die as a result until we reach this point ?
Jerry says
Would have Obama followed similar logic and
freed Adolf Eichmann because he studied
some Hebrew and Yiddish and brought his
wife flowers on their wedding anniversary
while fugitive from justice?
John C. Barile says
THIS is too much to stomach–PUT IT AT THE TOP OF A BILL OF INDICTMENT.
IMPEACH BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA!!
Amar says
I wouldn’t be surprised if they started releasing prisoners because they took up in depth study of the ‘religion of peace’ and read the biography of that ‘apostle’ of peace.
Since they think Islam is religion of peace anyway – why stop at Yoga and Dalai Lama. In interest of multicultural fairness – release prisoners who study the Quran too.
Jeanne says
So would have been freed had he been reading the Bible, or converted to Christianity?
Angemon says
Well, according to the US state, the real terrorist threat comes from christian radicals, so i doubt it.
Semeru says
And one longtime detainee, a former bodyguard for Osama bin Laden, is now harmless because he’s going to start a “milk and honey farm.”
If I remember rightly honey farming was a large source of finance for Al Qaeda
The moslems must be pissing themselves over this
Semeru says
Here we go, just as I thought
American officials say they have evidence that Osama bin Laden is using a network of shops that sell honey — a staple of Middle Eastern life since biblical times — to generate income and secretly move weapons, drugs and agents throughout Al Qaeda, his terrorist network.
Mr. bin Laden is in control of a number of these retail honey shops and members of his organization are also involved, one administration official said……..Mr. Emerson said, for example, that information his researchers gathered shows that one of the owners of Al Nur Honey, based in Sana, is Muhammad Hamdi Sadiq al-Ahdal, also known as Muhammad al-Hamati and Abu Asim al-Maki. Mr. Emerson said that a 1992 article in an Arabic journal described Mr. Ahdal as one of the first Arabs to have fought in Afghanistan.
Mr. Emerson said that after fighting in Bosnia, Mr. Ahdal was detained in Saudi Arabia in 1998 for planning terrorist activities against Saudi Arabia. Upon his release in the summer of 1999, he was deported
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/11/international/11HONE.html
Then
Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama Bin Laden
By Peter L. Bergen
Bin lade set up an extraordinary range of companies in Sudan, where al-Qaeda was almost literally Holy War, Inc. ‘The first business was Wadi al-Aqiq, a I company that had dispensation to ship anything it wanted. Other enterprises followed: another company, Ladin Intemational Company; Al-Hijra Construction (owned jointly by Bin Laden and the Sudanese govemment), which built roads and bridges and employed more than six hundred people; and the Al Themar agricultural company which had four thousand employees working at its one-million-acre Al-Damazine farms, which manufactured sesame oil and grew peanuts and com.” According to the U.S.
State Department, one of Bin Laden’s companies, Taba Investment Ltd., secured a near monopoly over Sudans major agricultural ex ports of gum, corn, sunilower, and sesame products.”‘° Taba also traded in sugar, bananas, canned goods, and soap. The Blessed Fruits Company grew fiuit and vegetables, while Al-Ikhlas produced sweets
and Bin laden also set up a trucking oompanyg Al-Oudurat; a leather company, Khartoum Tannery; a bakery; and’ a furniture making concern.
rev g says
So the young jihadis go to the honey farm to learn about the bombs and the bees?
gravenimage says
Semeru, that was some excellent sleuthing on the story about the sales of honey being used to fund violent Jihad.
Ashdach says
don’t panic, folks, because they all did get those micro-caps for tracking, which are virtual undetectable.
gravenimage says
Obama to free Gitmo jihad terrorist because “he took up yoga and read a biography of the Dalai Lama”
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This could almost be a parody.
I have a close relative who has been in and out of prison on some pretty serious charges.
He soon became aware of all sorts of things that would look good to a judge or parole board, including attending religious services and AA meetings, and checking the Bible or up-beat self-help books out of the library.
While some prisoners are no doubt quite sincere about these efforts at rehabilitation, others—including my relative—were terribly cynical, sleeping in service or classes (which they could sometimes get out of work assignments to attend), and, of course, leaving that Bible or self-help books unread.
And these were just garden-variety criminals. One can imagine the cynicism by Jihadists over snowing the foolish Kuffar is even greater.
Of course in this case it may not be necessary to actually fool Obama at all—from what he has said of his intention to empty Guantanamo, chances are he will use any excuses to release these dangerous terrorists—even one as flimsy as the above.