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Freed Guantánamo convict now jihad leader in Yemen

Dec 14, 2015 10:35 am By Robert Spencer

The obvious solution, as far as the Obama Administration is concerned: free more of them.

Ibrahim al Qosi

“Freed Guantánamo convict returns to the fight,” by Carol Rosenberg, Miami Herald, December 14, 2015:

A former Guantánamo detainee who was released to Sudan after a war court guilty plea has emerged in a key position in Al-Qaida of the Arabian Peninsula, according to an expert on jihadist movements….

Obama administration officials did not confirm or deny the apparent case of recidivism, which was first reported on the Long War Journal website Wednesday.

The video included Qosi’s biography and said he joined the jihad in Yemen in December 2014. It also said he was close to bin Laden “until he was imprisoned in Guantánamo in 2001.” Qosi, now 55, arrived at the detention center on Jan. 13, 2002, according to documents obtained by McClatchy Newspapers from the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks. He pleaded guilty to foot soldier war crimes in 2010 in exchange for release in 2012.

Qosi’s former U.S. attorney, Paul Reichler, told the Miami Herald on Wednesday that he had not been in touch with the Sudanese man since Qosi left the U.S. Navy base prison for Sudan in July 2012.

“I was told by a Sudanese lawyer a year ago that al Qosi was working as a taxi driver in Khartoum,” Reichler said by email. “I have received no information about his activities since then, and I do not know what he has been doing, or where he is living.”

At the time of Qosi’s return to Sudan, Reichler said he looked forward to being reunited with his wife and family, including two daughters, “and live among them in peace, quiet and freedom.” His wife at the time was the daughter of a former chief bodyguard to bin Laden.

On the AQAP tape, Qosi opines in Arabic on the evolving globalization of jihad. His comments were translated for the Herald by a journalist who is fluent in Arabic.

“As the U.S. has waged war on us remotely as a solution to minimize its casualties, we have fought it remotely, as well by individual jihad,” he is heard saying. “And as the U.S. has killed our men, we have killed its people. But it is not the same. Our dead are in heaven and theirs are in the hellfire, and the war is not over yet.”…

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  1. Don McKellar says

    Dec 14, 2015 at 10:39 am

    When Obama steps out of the White House for the last time the guards should be there, slapping him into handcuffs, and whisking him away to Guantánamo where he can stay while the case against him is built. Just like all his “innocent” friends.

    • Edward says

      Dec 14, 2015 at 1:58 pm

      How nice, an insider will be filling in for the one he helped jump out of Guantánamo!

      Its considered SEDITION in action in anyway you look at it!

      I wonder if the recent early releases of + 5k jailbirds, that the POTUS had ordered the US attorney general to do so; will pledge an allegiance to ISIS?

  2. mortimer says

    Dec 14, 2015 at 11:34 am

    Obama had this dangerous criminal locked up and then IRRESPONSIBLY turned him loose to hurt people!

    Now it will cost multi-millions to hunt him down and kill him! In the process, many innocent people will die. All because OBAMA doesn’t understand the jihad doctrine and refuses to learn it.

    How many more must die and suffer due to OBAMA’S NAIVETY?

    • Don McKellar says

      Dec 14, 2015 at 12:59 pm

      Nobody is that naive.

      Obama knows just what he’s doing. With every single move he has empowered Islam and jihad in one way or another. He is waging as much jihad from the White House as he can get away with. This final year he’s going to ramp it up.

    • rooare says

      Dec 14, 2015 at 1:26 pm

      Naivety may lie with those who believe Obama naïve.

  3. mortimer says

    Dec 14, 2015 at 11:46 am

    Qosi dresses in the style of an Islamic misogynist-supremacist. His orange, henna-colored beard and clipped mustache are in imitation of the aging rué-rapist Mohammed.

    It is disgusting and insulting to anyone’s intelligence. The clownishness of it is lost on the delusional Muslims, so far gone are they from a small semblance of reality.

  4. Tom says

    Dec 14, 2015 at 12:25 pm

    I’ve decided to do the Paul Shanklin “Khalid Sheik Muhommed” version of “New York, New York” at Karaoke soon..

  5. miriamrove says

    Dec 14, 2015 at 1:07 pm

    Is anyone here surprised? M

  6. Walter Sieruk says

    Dec 14, 2015 at 2:07 pm

    Of course this jihadist man has returned to the murderous violence of the jihad of Islam. For he has been thoroughly corrupted by violent ways of Islam’s militant jihad. So no amount of time spend in Git-mo will cause hem to change or turn away from his violence and deadly Islamic ways As it is written in the Bible.. “That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.” Ecclesiastes 1:15. {k.J.V.]

  7. Angemon says

    Dec 14, 2015 at 2:32 pm

    “Freed Guantánamo convict returns to the fight,” by Carol Rosenberg

    Dog bites man story.

  8. gravenimage says

    Dec 14, 2015 at 3:07 pm

    Freed Guantánamo convict now jihad leader in Yemen
    …………………….

    But wait–don’t we keep hearing that all the poor Guantanamo detainees are really just innocent taxi drivers and cooks who–somehow–wandered onto the Jihadi battlefield?

    No doubt it was this innocent man’s time in Gitmo that “radicalized” him…sarc/off

    • Mirren10 says

      Dec 16, 2015 at 10:34 am

      ”No doubt it was this innocent man’s time in Gitmo that “radicalized” him … ”

      That will *certainly* be the argument used by obama supporters and the brainless left, and they won’t be being sarcastic, either, unfortunately.

  9. Champ says

    Dec 14, 2015 at 3:34 pm

    Of course our muslim-in-chief wants to free them …

  10. Joseph says

    Dec 14, 2015 at 5:55 pm

    What a nice beard.
    It took me a while to remember where I saw it.
    https://curlylarryandme.wordpress.com/2012/12/05/fruitcake-and-follicles/orangutan/

    I really wonder if they are related.

    • ? says

      Dec 15, 2015 at 9:42 am

      Probably are…

  11. mike ryan says

    Dec 14, 2015 at 9:06 pm

    The Talmud states that “He who merciful to the cruel will eventually come to be cruel to the merciful.”

    Oh, how I sometimes wished that Uncle Sam had marched these minions of Satan,chained, into the crystal clear waters of the Caribbean Sea!

    How much suffering was caused when King Saul failed to kill King Agag of Amalek?

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