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Two veteran jihadis, weapons and explosives trainers, freed from Gitmo

Apr 4, 2016 7:36 pm By Robert Spencer

What could possibly go wrong? It isn’t as if there is a jihad against the U.S., right?

Guantanamo

“Pentagon announces transfer of two Guantanamo detainees,” Xinhua, April 5, 2016:

WASHINGTON, April 4 (Xinhua) — The Pentagon on Monday announced transfer of two Guantanamo Bay detainees to Senegal, bringing the population of the notorious U.S. detention facility in Cuba to under 90.

The two detainees, both Libyans, are Salem Abdu Salam Ghereby and Omar Khalif Mohammed Abu Baker Mahjour Umar, and their transfers were approved by six U.S. departments and agencies comprising the review board, said a Pentagon statement.

According to files by the New York Times, Ghereby was described as a “former explosives trainer and veteran jihad fighter,” while Umar was a weapon trainer and a commander of a militant camp.

After the latest transfers of two detainees, there were 89 detainees currently held in the Guantanamo Bay detention facility….

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  1. rational says

    Apr 4, 2016 at 8:59 pm

    I live in south-east Europe and the crazy Government of my country decided to volunteer and take one or two (can’t remember) of those Jihadis from G. As if we didn’t have plenty of local vehabis in the country but needed to import them.

    • Stephen says

      Apr 5, 2016 at 2:22 am

      Hope you have a good bomb shelter.

      • BC says

        Apr 5, 2016 at 3:24 am

        What a fool you are bomb shelters are from the bombs falling from above. Terrorist bombs are usually the person standing next to you in the crowd!

    • Stephen says

      Apr 5, 2016 at 2:35 am

      Let’s give a rousing shout out to our “courageous” congressmen who no doubt will tell us how shocked and disturbed they are by this latest development as they refuse to impeach the treasonous monster in the white house. Gutless, cowardly murderers each and everyone who refuses to implement the power of impeachment.

      • underbed cat says

        Apr 5, 2016 at 9:24 am

        I agree. ……or subversive treason. Blatant deception.

        Today is voting day in Wisconsin, every Presidential candidate for the Republican party is still on the ballot, …..and the first question asked of me was, “did I move”, and their is still talk about selecting a candidate instead of voting one in….if a candidate is short of delegates….guess that is the reason all those names were on the ballot. Should I be surprised?

      • Shane says

        Apr 5, 2016 at 9:59 am

        It is clear that Obama is on the side of Islamic Jihad, as his father was a Muslim and he has Muslim relatives. It is not surprising that a Black guy who hates America and who hates Whites should be on the side of Islam, as many of the Black Panthers and the Nation of Islam are Muslim.

  2. mortimer says

    Apr 4, 2016 at 11:24 pm

    They should not leave Guantanamo until they have memorized several books concerning the textual, ethical, social and historical problems within Islam and its brutal, foundational, source texts.

    By memorizing the problems within Islam, Muslims will be unable to consider the texts uncritically. It will then be practically impossible for them to ever conduct jihad, since their Islamic faith will not sustain the onslaught of the contrary evidence.

    Robert Spencer’s ‘Did Muhammad Exist’ should be required studying for every incarcerated Muslim.

    • Bart Connolly says

      Apr 9, 2016 at 6:14 am

      But you are assuming everyone ever brought to Guantanamo was guilty. Why do you think the constitution is wrong and people should not be allowed a FAIR trail before it is decided they are guilty? How many people were brought to Guantanamo and how many of them are or were tried and sentenced if found guilty as the Constution and any fair system of law suggests? If not 100% were tried and found guilty then the system is making a mistake isn’t it?

  3. Jack Diamond says

    Apr 5, 2016 at 2:23 am

    Just say “world peace” if you want to win the pageant. Save you a lot of typing.

  4. Keith W. Jordan says

    Apr 5, 2016 at 8:37 am

    Were these prisoners transferred to prison in Senegal, or to freedom in Senegal? I can’t tell by the article.
    There’s a big difference between those two choices.

    • Mirren10 says

      Apr 5, 2016 at 8:58 am

      Senegal is 94% mohammedan. I expect it’s freedom.

      • Bart Connolly says

        Apr 9, 2016 at 6:39 am

        A fair percentage of Guantanamo prisoners are from Islamic countries which are unstable and they are afraid of an uprising freeing them e.g. quatar. I dont know if these were already convicted in these countries however or just on remand. the US is notorius for keeping people on remand for long periods that other countries would not allow.
        But the main question is one of due process. If someone is in prison awaiting trial then if you are not going to try them you have to release them. Guantanamo has been aroung soince 2003. That could be 13 years without trial for some people. Now I know some are no doubt already convicted or are probably guilty but what about the ones who aren’t? whay shoudl they be servind 13 years in prison with Islamists if they are not Islamists themselves? Surely the effect will only be to make them into islamists by such treatment? I believe that is what happened to Qutb in Egypt. His imprisionment and torture convinced him that anyone can be pushed in doing anything. And he is the main philosopher behind both Bin Laden and Al Zaquari. so such camps can contribute to a problem rather than solve it.

  5. Bob Smyth says

    Apr 5, 2016 at 9:22 am

    It is interesting how these jihadis always have ‘made-up names’ that always comprise the Arabic for ‘slave of Allah’ plus a roll-call of names from the ‘Companions of Muhammad’.

  6. Shane says

    Apr 5, 2016 at 10:13 am

    White people
    Christians
    Conservatives
    Republicans and
    climate change deniers!

  7. Walter Sieruk says

    Apr 5, 2016 at 11:09 am

    Those jihadists will return to Islamic terrorism just as a pig will return to the mud. It also should be remembered that the United States Government ,at the American taxpayers expanse, had paid to send psychologists to camp Gitmo to straighten the Muslims terrorists out and to cause them to chance and turn them away from the violent and murderous way of the militant jihad for Islam. The sad and tragic reality is that none those Muslim terrorists held at Gitmo will change and turn wary from their brutal and deadly violent way of the jihad. No matter how many psychologists see them. and try hard to straighten them out. That is who thoroughly mind programmed and ingrained those Muslim terrorists are in the way of the violent and deadly jihad for Islam. As the ancient Greek poet, Aristophanes, wrote “Even the wisest of the wise will never be able to make a crab walk straight.” To put this in a different way, 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. davej says

    Apr 5, 2016 at 12:50 pm

    “Transferred”? WTF does that mean?

    All the psychologists in the world won’t take the jihad out of the jihadi – these are 100% brainwashed to be evil people.

    Like the 60 hour course being offered to the invading refugees to teach them to be civilized non-violent citizens – not going to work.

    Proven terrorists should be shot, not coddled.

    • Bart Connolly says

      Apr 9, 2016 at 6:46 am

      And “proven” means you believe it to be true or they are convicted by EVIDENCE in a court of law?
      Why do you assume guilt? surely they should face a fair trial?
      So the ones they didnt try were released after over a decade without trial in prison? and you think they should still be in prison when the courts don’t? Please care enlighten me as to WHY you disagree with due process?

  9. Jack Holan says

    Apr 6, 2016 at 1:29 am

    These 2 are exactly the type that should not be release since they are a multiplier leading and training others. Think an explosives expert who is also a trainer and the other a Commander. Don’t forget we sent 5 to Qatar with a ‘Deal’ the could leave after a year. Is this the same SHAM.

    • Bart Connolly says

      Apr 9, 2016 at 10:16 am

      Salem Abdu Salam Ghereby and Omar Khalif Mohammed Abu Baker Mahjour Umar are accused of being members of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) which uded to be banned worldwide but I dont know if it is anymore. They fought against Ghadiffi. Just like the MuJIHADeen fought against the russians.
      On 3 July 1979, Carter signed a presidential finding authorizing funding for them. President Reagan greatly expanded the “operation Cyclone” program The IS deployed CIA Special Activities DiOr was it just Carthervision paramilitary officers to equip the Mujihadeen forces and even gave them Stinger Missiles.
      So was Regan a traitor as wee as Obama? Or was it just Carter?

      So if you think training or supplying is wrong why don’t you criticize Regan?
      By the way what court tried and convicted the above two of any terrorism offenses?

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