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Obama rushed to release Guantanamo jihadists in final days in office

Jan 21, 2017 8:56 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

The Obama administration long held the position that transferring highly dangerous Guantanamo prisoners abroad could represent an olive branch in so-called peace talks with the Taliban. Another option in Obama’s determination to close Guantanamo was to transfer its prisoners to America, another bad idea that was met with resistance and ultimately blocked by Congress.

In his final days in office, Obama transferred 10 detainees to Oman, 3 to Saudi Arabia and 1 to the UAE; while 15 were sent off to the UAE in August. He knew full well that his successor — Donald Trump -0 would end the practice of Guantanamo transfers in keeping with concern for public safety.

“US transferring 4 Gitmo detainees to UAE and Saudi Arabia, officials say”, by Lucas Tomlinson, Fox News, January 17, 2017:

The U.S. military will transfer four more detainees out of Guantanamo Bay this week ahead of President Obama’s final day in office, two U.S. officials with knowledge of the transfers tell Fox News.

Three detainees will be sent to the United Arab Emirates, and one will be sent to Saudi Arabia, on two separate military flights, the officials said.

After the transfers are complete, 41 detainees will remain at the detention camp. It is not immediately known if any more transfers will take place before Obama leaves office Friday, though it is clear the outgoing president will not achieve his 2008 campaign goal of shuttering the camp.

President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to end detainee transfers from Gitmo after taking office.

The four detainees are expected to depart the camp Wednesday and arrive in UAE and Saudi Arabia on Thursday, the officials said.

The Pentagon does not typically acknowledge detainee transfers until at least 24 hours after they arrive in third-party nations.

Earlier this week, 10 detainees were transferred to Oman….

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  1. Bill says

    Jan 21, 2017 at 9:10 am

    More treason on the way out. Obama hates America and Americans. He know these terrorists are going to become active again. This also brings into stark relief his B2 bombing of some run-of-the- mill Jihadi soldiers in training.

    That could not have possibly been the purpose of that mission. I think that mission was intended to destroy something that was proof positive of Obama/Kerry/Jarrett/Hillary/Abedin treason. Something so bad, that if it were discovered, each of the above named would have been arrested, tried and convicted of treason.

  2. Dave Flang says

    Jan 21, 2017 at 9:24 am

    Did Obama cry out with “Allah Akbar” every time he signed an executive order attacking America?

    • Keith Gilbert says

      Jan 21, 2017 at 9:32 am

      In his ‘heart’ I’m sure he/it did…changing pens with every stroke so they can be passed to his ‘supporters’ unlike POTUS Trump who uses the same pen to sign everything.

    • Carolyne says

      Jan 22, 2017 at 12:25 pm

      I have read and seen pictures of the ring he wears as a wedding ring. It bears the Inscription that “Allah is greatest.” The man is a Muslim, he was born one, raised one, went to school as one, has referred to “My Muslim faith.” He has declared in one of his books that if the “Winds should turn ugly, I will stand with the Muslims.” He is IMO a traitor and should never even have been allowed in the country (He was born in Kenya) much less become the President.

  3. Keith Gilbert says

    Jan 21, 2017 at 9:30 am

    obama, the illegal and islamic former POTUS is gone…soon all his records must be released to the world to show how cleverly he deceived everyone…he is and was nothing more than a queer canabal mongrel gone wild with the aid of enemies of the state like Bill Ayres, Jeremiah Wright, HRC, et al. We’re done with him and his ilk…a new day is born in America and it doesn’t have a ‘black’ heart filled with hate, indeed from the looks of things it appears to be more Viking than could have been otherwise expected.

  4. Custos Custodum says

    Jan 21, 2017 at 10:05 am

    The very timing of these releases is itself proof positive that Barry was wholly unconcerned with American interests.

    Barry’s aim at every step was to undermine American values in the interest of his Muslim and billionaire patrons.

  5. sog says

    Jan 21, 2017 at 10:58 am

    On the plus side the Military resisted painting a big picture of Mohammad on that big east facing wall of the prison…. ( I don’t know if I could have.)

  6. davej says

    Jan 21, 2017 at 10:58 am

    What will happen to these guys sent to SA, will they be in detention or just dropped off at the nearest mosque? Who are they and what were they originally arrested for?

    The whole process seems quite mysterious and likely to be dangerous to the US. I highly doubt that any of them experienced a change in ideology while imprisoned.

    • Bill says

      Jan 21, 2017 at 11:31 am

      Saudi Arabia will put them back to work against the United States. Saudi Arabia is not our ally.

      • Carolyne says

        Jan 22, 2017 at 12:27 pm

        Saudi Arabia is our enemy. All Muslim countries are.

  7. somehistory says

    Jan 21, 2017 at 11:51 am

    Reminds of when hitler’s men were savagely killing as many in the camps as they could as they saw the end drawing near…as they saw the allied troops closing in to stop the murders, and release the innocent prisoners.

    The end was closing in on o and he worked feverishly…as did hitlers’ troops…in his evil work. His buddies, the ones he managed to free, send him greetings, no doubt.

  8. Angemon says

    Jan 21, 2017 at 12:02 pm

    Another option in Obama’s determination to close Guantanamo was to transfer its prisoners to America, another bad idea that was met with resistance and ultimately blocked by Congress.

    Thank God for those checks and balances.

  9. quota raven says

    Jan 21, 2017 at 12:26 pm

    What I’m wondering is how many prisoners are left now in Gitmo. Obama was letting them out, a few by a few, for years! Who’s left?

    What I feared most did NOT happen – that O would remove our military base from Guantanamo and close all other American interests down and give the island to his beloved Cuba!

    Cheers!

    quota raven

    • somehistory says

      Jan 21, 2017 at 2:59 pm

      The article said: “41 detainees will remain at the detention camp.”

      • quota raven says

        Jan 21, 2017 at 11:52 pm

        Thanks, Some H – I don’t know how I missed that. Wonder who those unfortunate 41 souls are and how they were deemed ineligible for release!!!

        Cheers!

        quota raven

    • Carolyne says

      Jan 22, 2017 at 12:29 pm

      I’m confused, Quota Raven. Did you used to be “Quotha Raven? I loved that name. Is it to be “Nevermore?”

      • quota raven says

        Jan 22, 2017 at 3:22 pm

        Car4olyne – Yes, it’s just plain old me – formerly known as Quotha Raven. Another commenter here addressed me as Quota (a typo) and I liked it, so I changed my name to it officially.

        Cheers!

        quota raven

  10. Guest says

    Jan 21, 2017 at 1:16 pm

    Traitor to our country till the end thank God he’s finally gone

  11. f c king says

    Jan 22, 2017 at 3:30 am

    He should go to saudi arabia and arrange for his daughters to marry some of these fine, true muslim lads.

  12. BC says

    Jan 22, 2017 at 6:11 am

    I agree Guantanamo should be emptied. Put them all on a boat tow it out a few kilometres and sink it.
    Come to think of it they do so much praying to allah but ‘he’ never seems to help them

  13. Makenomistake says

    Jan 22, 2017 at 10:40 am

    Rest assured… Barack Hussein Obama,though a Muslim, is of the worst sort, BlackAfrican in origin,the most hated by the criminal Arab muslims. Arabs call the Blacks ‘Abd’, that is ‘slave’. However hard Obama may try, he will never be able to get his daughters married to any Arab elite, never!!!
    Despite being the president of the USA, the black Obama is always an And,that is ,slave, to an Arab. The bigotry, apartheid,criminality are of the highest order in Arabs.

  14. Carolyne says

    Jan 22, 2017 at 12:20 pm

    I was furious to learn that when the prison at Guantanamo was established, George Bush instructed our personnel to handle the Koran with gloves, apparently agreeing with the terrorists that we are too unclean to touch that filthy book. IMO the gloves should come off IN more ways than one) and there should be women guards there just to annoy the barbarians. No one said that prisoners couldn’t be annoyed. Also, bacon and pork chops should be offered for meals and their dietary restrictions should be ignored. Would they give us a choice if we were their prisoners or would they rape and torture us? Would they even give us food? Turn about is fair play, although these measures in no way compare with putting people in a cage and burning them.

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