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Spain: Ex-Guantanamo detainee arrested for recruiting for the Islamic State

Feb 25, 2016 9:20 am By Robert Spencer

On the same day Obama announced that he was closing Guantanamo, this arrest in Spain reminded us of why that is a bad idea.

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“Former Guantanamo detainee among 4 arrested in Spain, Morocco for Islamic State ties,” by Alan Clendenning and Ciaran Giles, Associated Press, February 23, 2016:

MADRID — Spanish and Moroccan police on Tuesday arrested four suspected members of a jihadi cell that sought to recruit fighters for the Islamic State group, including one described as a former Guantanamo detainee who once fought with militants in Afghanistan.

Three people were arrested in Spain’s North African enclave city of Ceuta while a Moroccan was arrested in the Moroccan border town of Farkhana, next to Melilla, Spain’s other North African enclave, statements from the two nations’ interior ministries said.

One of those detained in Ceuta was the former Guantanamo detainee who was not named by Spanish authorities but described as “a leader who was trained in handling weapons, explosives and in military tactics.” After being captured in 2002 and held in Guantanamo, he was returned to Spain in 2004, said Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz.

Another suspect was the brother of a fighter who blew himself up during an attack in Syria and man detained Tuesday “was inclined to do the same thing,” he said.

The suspects had set up contacts to try to acquire weapons and bomb-making materials and were aiming “to carry out terrorist acts in Spanish territory,” the Spanish ministry statement said, without specifying possible targets.

They also worked to recruit teenagers from Ceuta to join IS in Iraq and Syria, the Spanish statement said….

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  1. quotha raven says

    Feb 25, 2016 at 9:51 am

    It’s beyond my comprehension that our Congress is sitting back and doing nothing while Obama arranges this invasion of Gitmo detainees into our beloved country of America’s enemies, with swelled ranks of new “refugees” to bolster the terrorists. I’m at a complete loss for words.

    • quotha raven says

      Feb 25, 2016 at 9:52 am

      (too upset even to write a proper sentence. apologies)

      Cheers!

      quotha raven

      • Carolyne says

        Feb 26, 2016 at 4:06 pm

        It is very upsetting, but one must understand that Obama is a Muslim and he is releasing these terrorists to terrorize again.

        I believe he wants to close Guantanamo prior to his visit to the Castros. He will then hand over the lease we have had since the late 1800s. Likely, he will also give Cuba billions of dollars to compensate for the “Wrong” we have done them.

        Our only hope is that Congress will show some backbone for a change, and stop the funding to transfer the terrorists and close Guantanamo. But hoping that Congress will show some backbone is probably a lost cause.

        Trump would have none of it, though.

    • manuel paleologus says

      Feb 25, 2016 at 2:31 pm

      Do not be surprise of anything our republican boys are not doing on the Hill. We voted for them to do something. Did they do anything? Nope!
      They should start the impeachment and defund Planned Parenthood. The truth is most of them, after the election is over, forget what they are put there for.
      So let us vote for Donald, who is outside the ‘political box’ of liars. He is the only one fit in our time to lead this country, economically, militarily and political.
      Watch and see what the republicans will do with Obama’s intention to appoint a liberal at the Supreme Court.

  2. mortimer says

    Feb 25, 2016 at 9:56 am

    The detainees of Guantanamo were not deprogrammed from their Death Cult and so continued to believe in it as strongly or more strongly than before, just as Hitler’s incarceration brought forth a more determined and confident Hitlerism.

    Western countries need urgently to prepare a top-notch deprogramming technique to deprogram jihadsts right out of Islam, so they will not believe in this nonsense for the rest of their lives. Americans prepared such a program to de-Nazify Germany.

    It is time to create a de-Islamification protocol to deprogram jihadists.

  3. Walter Sieruk says

    Feb 25, 2016 at 10:38 am

    It’s very natural for a jihadist Muslim who had been released from Guantanamo to return the the ways of the murderous violence of the militant jihad. That should be of no real surprise to anyone. To explain ,as in this illustrate, this kind of warped and violent mindset of that type of specific jihad-minded Muslim.It may be said “As a fly returns to the filth of the dung after being captured and then release. So does the Muslim/jihadist, after being released, return to the filth of the violence and deadly jihad . As the Bible teaches “That which is crooked cannot be made straight:and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.” Ecclesiastes 9::3. [K..J.V.]

  4. Angemon says

    Feb 25, 2016 at 11:02 am

    Another suspect was the brother of a fighter who blew himself up during an attack in Syria and man detained Tuesday “was inclined to do the same thing,” he said.

    Undercover law enforcement agents should just give these people real exploding vests with a hidden timer. All that would show up in the news would be “mysterious explosion in a mosque” or “mysterious explosion in home of suspected islamic state sympathizer”.

  5. Conservative Mann says

    Feb 26, 2016 at 10:58 am

    Nothing to see here, citizen; move along….

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