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Obama releases five more Gitmo detainees

Dec 31, 2014 9:59 am By Robert Spencer

Adel al-HakeemyIt’s OK. One of them is not a “veteran terrorist”; he’s just “a chef who was trying to find a better life.”

“What’s good in this place?” “Try the IED’s, sir. They’re to die for.”

“Five Guantanamo prisoners held for a dozen years are released and resettled in Kazakhstan,” by Dan Bloom, Daily Mail, December 31, 2014:

Five Guantanamo Bay inmates who were held without charge for more than a decade have been released and sent to Kazakhstan.

The men were all captured in Pakistan in the aftermath of 9/11 and accused of links to terror groups including Al-Qaeda, but ended up in legal limbo even after they were cleared to be freed.

Two of the men were from Tunisia and were identified as 49-year-old Adel Al-Hakeemy, and Abdallah Bin Ali al Lufti, who military records show is about 49.

The other three, from Yemen, were named as Asim Thabit Abdullah Al-Khalaqi, who is about 46, Muhammad Ali Husayn Khanayna, who is about 36, and Sabri Mohammad al Qurashi, about 44.

Lufti was detained in Pakistan and held at Guantanamo for nearly 12 years, according to a database of government documents compiled by the New York Times and National Public Radio.

He was accused of links to Tunisian militants when he lived in Italy in the 1990s, but he denied this.

He has heart problems that led authorities to recommend his transfer as early as 2004, according to government documents handed to Wikileaks.

He had a mechanical heart valve fitted in 1999 and was on a cocktail of medication including blood thinners. He also had a history of kidney stones and depression, according to the files.

Another of the suspects, Hakeemy, has been the subject of a lengthy campaign by the London-based campaign Reprieve.

He had been described by U.S. authorities as a ‘veteran terrorist’ who had allegedly taken part in fighting in Bosnia and was accused of links with an Algerian Islamist group.

But the charity said he was just a chef who was trying to find a better life. …

Yeah, I’m sure he will be cooking up a great deal.

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  1. RaymondofCanada says

    Dec 31, 2014 at 10:08 am

    “He had a mechanical heart valve fitted in 1999 and was on a cocktail of medication including blood thinners.” Have we had a case of either prisoner refusing to leave? I doubt if they will ever have it so good again, but then, their Chief might have already made arrangements for their well-being. Great timing too, Hussein.

  2. Angemon says

    Dec 31, 2014 at 10:40 am

    Don’t forget to give them a large bag of money on the way out. After all, poverty causes terrorism, and you wouldn’t them to go back to being terrorists, would you?

  3. jewdog says

    Dec 31, 2014 at 11:27 am

    I’ve read that there is now no lengthy interrogation process, which was the main function of Gitmo. That has led to a lapse in intelligence gathering. in the war against Islamic supremacism. If Obama thinks that closing Gitmo will win friends among the jihadi, then he is seriously deluded, or he is one of their friends.

  4. somehistory says

    Dec 31, 2014 at 11:45 am

    Daniel Greenfield wrote an excellent article on one of the guys just released…*a nuclear* terrorist…published in FPM (Obama Frees a Nuclear Terrorist
    By Daniel Greenfield
    Is there any terrorist Obama won’t liberate?.http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/obama-frees-a-nuclear-terrorist/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=69992e17d2-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-69992e17d2-156533829)

    Have they located the terrorist released some years ago whom they recently said was worth several million in reward? It just makes one feel so very safe…warm and fuzzy.

  5. Sam says

    Dec 31, 2014 at 11:56 am

    Where is the public outcry against the White House? None! So we will be beaten up by Islam more and more. It is very difficult to be optimistic about the future of my children in America any more. Media is still protecting this idiot Obama. Insane world.

    • Salah says

      Dec 31, 2014 at 1:44 pm

      “Where is the public outcry against the White House? None!”

      You nailed it, Sam.
      The real problem is not Islam, it’s not Obama, it’s OUR INACTION.
      Shame on you peoples of the “free” world. Even Muslims know better.

      http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-end-of-muslim-brotherhood.html

  6. moses says

    Dec 31, 2014 at 12:32 pm

    when obama said America was going to fundamentally change (in a negative way) he was determined to see it happen.

  7. Walter Sieruk says

    Dec 31, 2014 at 1:22 pm

    The US government has spent the US taxpayers money to send psychologists to Gitmo to help and straingten out the jihadist held there. Nevertheless, those just released Islamic terrorists as well as the others held there will not change from their deadly ways of the jihad for Islam. As the ancient Greek poet, Arisphans wrote ” The wisest of the wise will never make a crab walk straight.” Likewise, the Bible teaches “That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.” Ecclesiastes 1:15. [K.J.V.]

  8. Jack the Nipper says

    Dec 31, 2014 at 2:41 pm

    At least we can be grateful that Obama did not appoint them to high positions in the Pentagon (yet).

    • particolor says

      Dec 31, 2014 at 8:29 pm

      They would have all made good Immigration Officials in Victimistan !!

  9. Jack Holan says

    Dec 31, 2014 at 4:56 pm

    From the very beginning these terrorists should have been tried by a military tribunal of high ranking officers. İ still don’t understand how the military lost control of these judicial cases.The Military code of Justice is extremely fair system. However to say these terrorists picked up on the field of battle in another country by the Military engaged in battle and if brought to Leavenworth they don’t enjoy rights of an American citizen. Why would they? We tried Americans during WW2 and tried them in a Military Cour. tA smart investigative journalist would enter the names of GİTMO released prisoners and if their name comes up in the death of an American or İsraeli the journalist could expose the travesty.

  10. gravenimage says

    Dec 31, 2014 at 5:45 pm

    Obama releases five more Gitmo detainees
    …………………………….

    How many of these detainees have now returned to waging violent Jihad?

    More:

    But the charity said he was just a chef who was trying to find a better life
    …………………………….

    Really? In that case, why wasn’t he trying to get to Europe to open a nice starter restaurant in a cheap district of Paris or London, instead of hanging around terror-training camps in Pakistan? The whole thing is laughable, but the joke, I’m afraid, is on us…

  11. Bc says

    Jan 1, 2015 at 9:23 am

    It took them 12 years to find out he was innocent, unbelievable

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