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Freed Gitmo detainee opens Islamic State base in Afghanistan

Jan 15, 2015 10:19 pm By Robert Spencer

mullah-abdul-rauf-former-taliban-commander-has-joined-isis-now-recruiting-groupAnd Obama just keeps freeing more. These men are seasoned, trained, battle-hardened jihadis. What are they going to do, open a deli?

“Freed Gitmo Captive Opens ISIS Base in Afghanistan,” Judicial Watch, January 15, 2015:

As President Obama frees droves of terrorists—including five Yemenis this week—from the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo news reports confirm that a Gitmo alum who once led a Taliban unit has established the first Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) base in Afghanistan.

His name is Mullah Abdul Rauf and international and domestic media reports say he’s operating in Helmand province, actively recruiting fighters for ISIS. Citing local sources, a British newspaper writes that Rauf set up a base and is offering good wages to anyone willing to fight for the Islamic State. Rauf was a corps commander during the Taliban’s 1996-2001 rule of Afghanistan, according to intelligence reports. After getting captured by U.S. forces, he was sent to Gitmo in southeast Cuba but was released in 2007.

Rauf’s Department of Defense Joint Task Force Guantanamo file describes him as being closely associated with several senior level Taliban commanders and leaders. It also says that Rauf admitted involvement in the production and sales of opium as well as associations with criminal elements within the Taliban and the Northern Alliance. From the file: “Due to recent findings that detainee may have had a more important role within the Taliban than previously thought detainee’s intelligence value has been updated from low to medium due to his possible knowledge of: (1) Taliban leadership, (2) Taliban command and control.”

Rauf is one of a number of Gitmo terrorists who have returned to the fight after getting released, yet Obama continues freeing captives to keep his campaign promise of closing the prison. Just this week he let four Yemenis go, despite the risk that they will likely join Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the Yemen-based terror group that claimed responsibility for last week’s attack in France. In fact, dozens of freed Gitmo detainees have rejoined Al Qaeda in Yemen, the country where the 2009 Christmas Day airline bomber proudly trained. In 2010 Judicial Watch reported that a number of high-ranking Al Qaeda militants in Yemen—once held at Gitmo—may have been involved in a sophisticated scheme to send bombs on a U.S.-bound cargo plane….

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Filed Under: Afghanistan, Featured, Guantanamo, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh) Tagged With: Mullah Abdul Rauf


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  1. Richie says

    Jan 15, 2015 at 10:32 pm

    well, according to Obama, terrorism has nothing to do with Islam

    The narrative they spin is that Muslims are always the victim, even when they rape and kill.

    Obama and his cult followers blame the Jews or the Tea Party

  2. Don McKellar says

    Jan 15, 2015 at 10:32 pm

    Don’t sell him short! Maybe he’ll open a halal deli in Afghanistan after it becomes The Islamic State East Side? That’s not a question of if, only when — ISES that is, not the deli.

  3. Eve A. Goodmon says

    Jan 15, 2015 at 10:43 pm

    I am deeply concerned with the response of both the Obama administration and the EU to attacks on Jews and increase in Jihad activity. I can’t help wonder if the president has an agenda that does not include the well being of the USA and he poses real danger.

    Increasing number of articles and his attitude towards Israel in the past few years is raising an alarm about what are his exact intentions in the Middle East.

    I think your website and others like you are critical in keeping the public informed.

  4. Dracula says

    Jan 15, 2015 at 10:56 pm

    I said in the past that people cheering the emptying of Gitmo and tacit acquiescence to accusations of it being an inhumane torture program would be sorry when this happened.

    I was of course wrong. They’re not sorry.

  5. Salah says

    Jan 15, 2015 at 11:02 pm

    “Just this week he let four Yemenis go, despite the risk that they will likely join Al Qaeda…”

    They don’t really have a choice, they MUST join Al Qaeda or they are dead.
    Islam is a mafia, whoever tries to leave it must be killed.
    Islam is a huge prison where Muslims are both the prisoners and the jailers.

  6. Jay Boo says

    Jan 15, 2015 at 11:04 pm

    Off Topic
    Saudis building a wall to keep out terrorists.
    Isn’t that the same thing Israel did under heavy criticism?

    http://news.yahoo.com/great-wall-saudi-arabia-163153320.html

    • umbra says

      Jan 16, 2015 at 3:56 am

      … islam gets a free pass every time.

  7. Hi says

    Jan 15, 2015 at 11:43 pm

    I have a feeling that sooner or later people in “Free Societies” will be living in housing enclaves like in Africa. A high wall surrounding communities with hired armed guards.

  8. gravenimage says

    Jan 16, 2015 at 12:34 am

    Freed Gitmo detainee opens Islamic State base in Afghanistan
    ………………………….

    Is anyone surprised by this? I’m not. And I suppose Afghanistan allows this to go on openly. What was all that blood and treasure for again?

  9. Davegreybeard says

    Jan 16, 2015 at 5:02 am

    @SAKOVKT
    “The spirit of Europe is Heroic, not republican.”

    Well all righty then, precisely what does that mean?

  10. nic says

    Jan 16, 2015 at 5:50 am

    I suppose I’ll get slated for this… BUT…

    If you kidnap people, hold them for six or seven years without charging – let alone prosecuting – them, deny them access to legal counsel or access to family etc, torture them, humiliate them, then they are hardly going to feel love and affection to you (as a nation) when you release them.

    Guantanamo bay was a stupid idea. It was obvious within a few months that the idea would fail. It subsequently came a recruiting ground for Jihadists, and a permanent stain on America’s reputation as a beacon of freedom..

    Heck, the Guantanamo regime would probably turn Mahatma Ghandi into a raging Jihadist, let alone the average Mohammed Abdul Achbar. And those that where ALREADY raging jihadists when they entered the prison would have their hatred of the USA sharpened and refined.

    • Jack Diamond says

      Jan 16, 2015 at 10:48 am

      They are not “people” (entitled to legal counsel) they are enemy combatants of the jihad captured on the battlefield and you are right, most of them would have been better shot on sight. Isn’t it great al-Baghdadi was released from our custody too? And you know what, I think those detainees know what real torture is–the kind they would face anywhere but Gitmo. I know, I know defending ourselves just makes them mad…

      • Nic says

        Jan 17, 2015 at 3:35 am

        “al Bahgdadi wsa released from our custody too…”

        Interesting; I didn’t know that. However, If I wsa being ultra-cynical, I might wonder wether he had been ‘turned’ during his captivity, and was actually now working for the CIA. After all, he’s draining manpower from the various branches of Al-quada, and has killed more Muslims than … well… anyone in history ?

  11. Angemon says

    Jan 16, 2015 at 7:36 am

    As President Obama frees droves of terrorists—including five Yemenis this week—from the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo news reports confirm that a Gitmo alum who once led a Taliban unit has established the first Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) base in Afghanistan.

    OMG! Who could have possibly see that one coming?!?!?!

    sarc/ off…

  12. pongidae rex says

    Jan 16, 2015 at 8:25 am

    If Obama was not the ‘first black US president’ he would have been impeached for the treasonous speech he gave to the UN general assembly calling for criminalization of free speech.

  13. Ayatrollah says

    Jan 16, 2015 at 12:54 pm

    If they have not charged or convicted them of anything they need to let them go. That is the rules. The real question is why have they not been convicted and sentenced of something?

  14. Walter Sieruk says

    Jan 16, 2015 at 1:16 pm

    As for the Five just released jihadist thugs form Gitmo. They will go back and continue the violence of the militant and murderous jihad of Islam as the Koran teaches , Sura 9:111. 47:4. At the expense of the American taxpayer the US government had send psychologists to the Gitmo compound the help and straighten out those Muslim terrorists being held there. The thing is the these Muslim terrorists are so very warped, deluded and dangerous ,because of their religion, that no amount of psychology will be able to help them turn from the deadly jihad ways. In other words the psychologists sent there have not and will not be able to straighten them out. As the ancient poet, Aristophanes, wrote “The wisest of the wise will never make a crab walk straight.” To put it another way, the Bible in Ecclesiastes 1:15 teaches “That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.” [K.J.V.]

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