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France: Guantanamo inmate released by Obama arrested for recruiting for the Islamic State

Jun 1, 2017 4:25 pm By Robert Spencer

“Among the suspects arrested was Sabir Mahfouz Lahmar, who was freed from the US detention centre in Cuba in 2009 after France agreed to accept him, said a judicial official.”

And look at how his presence has enriched France.

“Former Guantanamo Bay inmate among suspected Isis recruiters arrested in France,” by Lori Hinnant and Lizzie Dearden, Independent, May 31, 2017 (thanks to Creeping Sharia):

A former Guantanamo Bay inmate is among six people from an alleged Isis recruiting network who have been detained in France.

Among the suspects arrested was Sabir Mahfouz Lahmar, who was freed from the US detention centre in Cuba in 2009 after France agreed to accept him, said a judicial official.

He was one of six Algerians detained in Bosnia in 2001 on suspicion of plotting to bomb the US embassy in Sarajevo.

The US Justice Department later backed off the allegations, but held the men at Guantanamo for several years. The former French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, agreed to take Lahmar in April 2009 and he moved to Bordeaux later that year.

The French official said Lamar, at 48, is the oldest of the four men and two women who were arrested and said that there were no indications the group was plotting an attack.

Five of the suspects were detained in Bordeaux and one in Paris in a series of raids on Monday….

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  1. Rick Spencer says

    Jun 1, 2017 at 4:31 pm

    A leopard never changes its spots!

    • mortimer says

      Jun 1, 2017 at 10:59 pm

      France deserves to have more and more jihad since that is the electoral choice they made. The jihad will continue until the French collectively wake up.

      • gravenimage says

        Jun 1, 2017 at 11:07 pm

        No Infidels deserve Muslim savagery.

      • Sabino says

        Jun 3, 2017 at 7:27 am

        I am in France and in Bordeaux at the present time, visiting my French family. France doesn’t not deserve anything bad to happen to her. I just wish that the political leaders like Emmanuel Macron and his predecessors would be less blind to the danger of radical Islam.

  2. Eur says

    Jun 1, 2017 at 4:38 pm

    I’m not surprised. In Spain a Moroccan with Spanish nationality who was in Guantanamo (arrested in masari sarif) came out in the press saying how bad the Americans had treated him and that he was not a terrorist. To this day he is in jail for being the brain of a terrorist cell that collects money in the main mosque of Madrid (10 euros per person) for the Islamic state. He was also recruiting Muslims to go to Syria. They are very bad people, always thinking about hurting.

  3. marina says

    Jun 1, 2017 at 4:46 pm

    French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, agreed to take Lahmar

    What was the Pres thinking?

    • Ann says

      Jun 2, 2017 at 10:06 pm

      Hs wasn’t thinking.

  4. gravenimage says

    Jun 1, 2017 at 5:10 pm

    France: Guantanamo inmate released by Obama arrested for recruiting for the Islamic State
    ………………

    Of course, this should surprise no one.

  5. jewdog says

    Jun 1, 2017 at 6:35 pm

    I’m surprised that he was involved. President Obama had assured us that treating the Guantanamo inmates fairly would impress them and their Muslim compatriots with our decency and that that would ultimately lessen the threat of terrorism.
    .

    • Frank Anderson says

      Jun 1, 2017 at 10:34 pm

      I have struggled for 8 years to see 1 thing BHO did or did not do that made the US stronger, safer or more secure. I am still struggling. In Jimmy Carter’s 4 years I can look to 2 things that I believe he did correctly. 1) completed development and deployment of the cruise missiles that eventually bankrupted the Soviet Union, and 2) in one of the most humanitarian and well-deserved acts of history placed the US Navy off the coast of Vietnam to rescue the “boat people”. “Sad” is not adequate for the failure of the US and Europe to take similar action to rescue the Jews from Nazi Germany. “A snake is still a snake. . .”

      • gravenimage says

        Jun 1, 2017 at 11:16 pm

        Good evaluation, Frank.

        • Frank Anderson says

          Jun 2, 2017 at 6:36 am

          GI, thank you.

  6. mortimer says

    Jun 1, 2017 at 11:05 pm

    Obama who released the Guantanamo jihadis will never have to LIVE NEAR ONE. He will always live in a gated community with full-time bodyguards, unlike the toiling masses who live, work and travel daily on public transit and are vulnerable to jihad attacks, rapes, robberies, lootings, beatings 24/7 and 365 days a year.

    Those who make the decisions to release jihadis from jail or import them, will not suffer the consequences themselves unless another airliner is hijacked.

  7. jamesmi says

    Jun 2, 2017 at 1:08 pm

    Jihadis do jihaddy things – why is that so hard to understand ?

  8. John A. Marre says

    Jun 3, 2017 at 1:54 pm

    Wondering when the CBS evening news will be telling the people that Obama released someone who’s a real danger to them.

  9. Susette says

    Jun 4, 2017 at 4:58 pm

    Why are muslim men so incredibly ugly?

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