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Mohammad Mani Ahmad al-Qahtani was, up until recently, one of the 39 remaining detainees at Guantánamo; however, on Monday, Old Joe Biden’s handlers announced that after twenty years in the camp, al-Qahtani was being sent back home to Saudi Arabia for “treatment for mental illness.” What could possibly go wrong?
Ramzi Kassem, al-Qahtani’s attorney, declared: “After two decades without trial in U.S. custody, Mohammed will now receive the psychiatric care he has long needed in Saudi Arabia, with the support of his family. “Keeping him at Guantanamo, where he was tortured, and then repeatedly attempted suicide, would have been a likely death sentence.”
The Department of Defense announced that “on June 9, 2021, the Periodic Review Board process determined that law of war detention of Mohammad Mani Ahmad al-Qahtani was no longer necessary to protect against a continuing significant threat to the national security of the United States. Therefore, the PRB recommended that al-Qahtani be repatriated to his native country of Saudi Arabia, subject to security and humane treatment assurances.” The freeing of al-Qahtani, according to the DoD, was part of a “process focused on responsibly reducing the detainee population and ultimately closing of [sic] the Guantanamo Bay facility.”
Al-Qahtani has been in custody since December 2001, when he was captured in Afghanistan fighting against American forces. Not long before that, on Aug. 3, 2001, he arrived in Orlando, Fla. on a flight from Dubai but was refused entry and sent back on suspicions that he was trying to settle in the U.S. illegally. 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta was waiting at the Orlando airport to pick him up, leading to speculation that he planned to participate in the 9/11 hijackings.
Holding al-Qahtani in Gitmo for twenty years without trial stemmed from the fact that he was being treated as a prisoner of war. In past wars also, soldiers who became prisoners of war were generally not tried; they were held until the end of hostilities and then released. But the “war on terror” did not have any definable endpoint, so there was no endpoint for the jihadis in Guantanamo. Some jihadis actually were tried, and others are still awaiting trial, because despite calling it a “war,” the U.S. government still persisted in treating each act of jihad as if it were a separate and discrete criminal act, without any relationship to any larger conflict. Also, not being able to tie people such as al-Qahtani to any specific crime meant they would have to be tried, if they were tried at all, simply for membership in the Taliban or al-Qaeda, and that would be an easy case to lose in the absence of any evidence of actual criminal activity.
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Infidel says
Sure! Since nothing beats Saudi Arabia when it comes to psychiatric care 😈
Honestly, if those conspirators like KSM, Ramzi bin al Sheeb, Abu Zubaida, et al were turned over to one of the less islamic countries that were our ‘allies’ b’cos they dreaded al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood – such as Egypt, they’d have been executed long ago, and you wouldn’t have had ACLU dragging their cases
gravenimage says
Yes–the idea that *Saudi Arabia* is an honest actor here is ludicrous (and that’s if “deradicalization” worked to begin with).
libertyORdeath says
“Sure! Since nothing beats Saudi Arabia when it comes to psychiatric care”
That first line is great infidel! I just about fell out of my chair laughing.
JesusIsLord says
In Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 one has their “head examined” by getting it lopped off!
Infidel says
Yeah, how else would you examine someone’s head?
bill says
You think Egypt is ‘less Islamic’ I think you need to look at Egypt again. Christians and Copts are being persecuted there all the time even murdered. Also it is BECAUSE not b’cos. What are you mentally 15 years old ?
gravenimage says
Bill, Egypt probably is somewhat less oppressive than is Saudi Arabia–but this is not saying much. You are right that Coptic Christians are severely persecuted there.
somehistory says
Letting the terrorists go home, while holding citizens in solitary, small dirty cells, and not allowing them to see their attorneys…in D.C.
Putting it like Jesus, quoting the Prophet Isaiah, “Woe to those calling evil good and good evil, putting light for darkness and darkness for light..”
All mozlums could be said to need psychiatrists, based on what they believe. why not treat all of them, and not just saying that those who commit the terror…all are commanded to commit…are the only ones in need of help to change the brains?
Psychopaths don’t make changes to their personality because some *doctor* talks to them. Psychopaths don’t see that they *need* to make changes, as they consider themselves the only perfect people.
and these mozlums are psychopaths.
libertyORdeath says
Didn’t they find this guy in Afghanistan fighting for a non-state terrorist organization?
That fact is enough to deprive him of his supposed “human rights” to a trial, and even enough to avoid having to treat him like a POW as a member of a state-sanctioned military. His dealings with the ringleader of the 9/11 terrorist attacks should have meant that he was interrogated for any relevant knowledge, then executed.
Also, by joining a terrorist organization OUTSIDE of Saudi Arabia, he should not have been treated as a citizen of said country. If there are no consequences for terrorists, ISIS members or their brides, then this will keep happening.
somehistory says
I do believe that you are correct regarding this terrorist.
gravenimage says
Why did Biden free another jihadi? Why was he held at Gitmo for 20 years?
…………
Is Biden even going to ask this question?
libertyORdeath says
Probably not. But the better question is this…
Did you and Robert Spencer condemn the invasion of Ukraine yet???
Just messing with you after I saw a comment on the topic.
gravenimage says
Thank you, libertyORdeath. 🙂
(And just in case anyone here actually wonders, I condemn the brutal Russian invasion of Ukraine–and have since the beginning).
Andrew Blackadder says
I hope Robert lets us know what will happen to this scumbag once he lands in Saudi Arabia.
gravenimage says
If the past is any indication, not much. He probably will do some ‘art therapy’ for a couple of months and then be released, likely to resume Jihad again soon.
Martyn Jones says
I have had the pleasure of being inside a Saudi mental institution, to pick up medicine and instruments, and have no doubt this jihadi if he is ever placed there, will suffer like he never did in guantanamo!
somehistory says
A “pleasure” huh. I have no doubt.
gravenimage says
Martyn, I’m sure this is true for the genuinely mentally ill–they are terribly mistreated in most of Dar-al-Islam. But these “rehabilitation centers” for Jihadists sound pretty much like country clubs.
Walter Sieruk says
If and that is “If” Mohammad Mani Al-Qantani really is mentally ill it’s because his religion drove him into an irrational state of mind.
Therefore being send to a completely Islamic nation to be “helped” is ridiculous.
Nevertheless even in a Western nation , as the United Kingdom, no amount of psychiatric therapy from even the best psychologists would be able to “help” Al Qantani because he has had his cognition so terrible damaged by Islam that no about of therapy would be able to turn him into a peaceful man who isn’t dangerous.
As the ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes wrote “Even the wisest of the wise can never make a crab walk straight.”
Likewise centuries later the German philosopher Immanuel Kant had written “Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing can be made.”
Walter Sieruk says
Joe Biden and his handlers by releasing that jihadist from Gitmo , just as they have before this current action of folly freed other jihadists , is a terribly irresponsible thing to do . This is because then they or at least some of them murder again, in the jihad of Islam, Biden and his team will have the blood of innocent people of their hands.
OLD GUY says
A prisoner of war usually was a soldier in uniform not a civilian terrorist. He should have been tried as a terrorist an if convected executed. Returning him to Saudi Arabia is sending him home as a hero and he will most likely reappear as a terrorist again.