WH Official claims ‘Upcoming progress’ in freeing Gitmo Terrorists this year

June 6, 2014 — bunkerville

I don’t know what is worse. Watching this regime load up the world with these terrorists out of Gitmo, or the eunuchs known as Congress, in particular the GOPers who will sit back and watch this go down without a fight. We think about ourselves, but what about the Afghan people who will have to endure the terrorists as well? Who have endured years of their brutality.

Washington (AFP) – Moves to free detainees from the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay are gathering pace as the administration works to close the notorious jail, a top US official said Thursday.

“There are a significant number of transfers in the pipeline at various stages and I think you’re going to be seeing substantial progress this year,” the senior administration official said, amid a furor over the release of five Taliban prisoners for a captured US soldier in Afghanistan.

Yahoo News

Here is a piece about just one of the fine fellows just released by our Commander in thief.

Release of Taliban Detainees Alarms Afghan Villagers
Some Recall Scorched-Earth Offensive Led by One of the Freed Prisoners

SHEYKHAN, Afghanistan—Taliban forces led by Mohammed Fazl swept through this village on the Shomali plain north of Kabul in 1999 in a scorched-earth offensive that prompted some 300,000 people to flee for their lives.

When the Taliban seized control of this area from their Northern Alliance rivals in 1999, they systematically demolished entire villages, blowing up houses, burning fields and seeding the land with mines, according to two comprehensive studies of war crimes and atrocities during wars in Afghanistan and human rights reports. Mr. Fazl played a major role in the destruction.

“There was not a single undamaged house or garden,” said Masjidi Fatehzada, a shopkeeper in Mir Bacha Kot, the district center. “My entire shop was burned to the ground. There was nothing left.”

Khwaja Mohammad, a farmer in the village of Sheykhan, remembered how Mr. Fazl’s men took away his son, a civilian, and sent him to Kabul’s Pul-e Charkhi prison.

“Fazl is the case among the five where there is clear evidence that he had command responsibility for forces that committed atrocities,” said Patricia Gossman, a researcher with the advocacy group Human Rights Watch who has studied crimes committed during the Afghan civil war. “Shomali is the place where he was on the ground.”

Ms. Gossman added that evidence also places Mr. Fazl on the scene of a massacre of civilians in the Yakawlang district of central Bamyan province in January 2001. All of the parties in Afghanistan’s civil war that began in the 1990s were involved in atrocities and rights abuses, according to researchers.

More at WSJ. Ed. And we could not make a way of finding Fazl guilty of a crime? How about war crimes Mr. Obama, and take him to the Hague??

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Eric Holder strikes again – releases Lynne Stewart who aided first World Trade bomber

January 3, 2014 — bunkerville

Anyone recall  Lynne Stewart? The attorney for the blind sheik who was involved in the first World Trade Tower’s bombing that maimed and killed Americans. So she doesn’t want to die in a strange and loveless place.

Should we be surprised? Recall from a post September, 2009: The U.S. Congress rushes to confirm an Attorney General, Eric Holder, whose law firm we later find out represents seventeen Gitmo Terrorists.

 Where is Eric Holder in all of this? How about THAT –

From the Law firm’s C & B website:

The firm represents 17 Yemeni nationals and one Pakistani citizen held at Guantánamo Bay. The Supreme Court will soon review the D.C. Circuit’s ruling that ordered the dismissal of a number of habeas petitions filed by Guantánamo detainees; some of our clients are petitioners in the Supreme Court case. We expect to play a substantial role in the briefing. We also plan to petition the Supreme Court to hear our Pakistani client’s appeal from the D.C. Circuit’s order dismissing his case. Further, we are pursuing relief in the D.C. Circuit under the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 for all of our clients. On a separate front, we filed amicus briefs and coordinated the amicus effort in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld in which the Supreme Court in the summer of 2006 invalidated President Bush’s military commissions and in which we have obtained favorable rulings that our clients have rights under the Fifth Amendment and the Geneva Conventions.

A federal judge in Manhattan has granted the “compassionate release” from prison for radical lawyer Lynne Stewart so she can die a free woman.

Stewart, 73, who is four years into a 10-year prison sentence for passing along messages from imprisoned terror mastermind Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman to his followers, has terminal cancer and less than 18 months to live.

The joint filing Tuesday by the Bureau of Prisons and the U.S. Attorney’s office asks Judge John Koeltl to grant her a “compassionate release.” Read more: NY Daily News

Stewart  had said she didn’t want to die in “a strange and loveless place.” Huffington Post

Perhaps this quote from Adams will give pause:

Democracy… while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
John Adams.

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Libya attack tied to Al Qaeda and Gitmo detainee Sufyan Qumu

September 19, 2012 — bunkerville

Fox News Insider just reported: FOX NEWS EXCLUSIVE: Intel Sources Say Libya Attack Tied to Al Qaeda and Ex-Gitmo Detainee Sufyan Ben Qumu. We posted info back in April, 2011 that this bad fellow was heading up the rebels, and Clinton was the one behind giving him covert arms.

According to his Gitmo files, he was also tied to 9/11 financiers, and his alias is “found on a list of probable Al Qaeda personnel receiving monthly stipends and family support.”

CLICK HERE FOR THE ACTUAL DOCUMENT: Gitmo Transfer Papers for Al Qaeda Employee Who May Have Led Libya Attack 

Question: Why are we still focused on the question of whether the attack was “pre-planned” or “spontaneous” if we have good reason to think Al Qaeda was involved? It’s not like U.S. intelligence didn’t know that there are expert jihadis in the area; on the contrary, Benghazi is one of the jihadi-est places on Earth and has been so for years.  More at Hot Air

I wrote a couple of posts at the time of the Libyan misadventure in the Spring of 2011. Here are some excerpts.. Now we know why Susan Rice, who was up to her eyeballs with Hillary Clinton in this mess was lying through her teeth on Sunday. Now we know why Hillary looked like a deer in the headlights when giving her take on the action. Did they really think we would not figure this out?

Here is a bit of a refresher about our gal Susan Rice… from: Three women who brought us the new long war in Libya March 2011.  I watched the news on T.V. this morning and I am not hearing anything about this. Then we got this report and video over at Al Jazerra that Hillary is arming the rebels link Here. Even thought Gates was opposed to it. So who are you arming Hillary?

In joining Ms. Rice and Ms. Power, Mrs. Clinton made an unusual break with Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, who, along with the national security adviser, Thomas E. Donilon, and the counterterrorism chief, John O. Brennan, had urged caution. Libya was not vital to American national security interests, the men argued, and Mr. Brennan worried that the Libyan rebels remained largely unknown to American officials, and could have ties to Al Qaeda.”

March 23 2011 Al Qaida and Muslim Brotherhood getting ready for Libya

“We also know that al-Qaida has their heart set on controlling petroleum. Libya is the No. 4 producer. There is no bigger prize in northern Africa than Libya right now,” Trento said.

He said Choudary is in a position to know if the Brotherhood or al-Qaida is poised to move if Gadhafi is removed.

April 3, 2011 post: Libyan rebels lead by Gitmo detainee and Afghan Jihadists

Two former Afghan Islamists and a former Gitmo detainee are leading the rebels in Libya.
The US is reportedly training and arming the rebels in Libya.

Former Gitmo detainee Sufyan Ben Qumu was released from Libyan prison last year.

It took Ben Qumu less than a year to lead rebels against the regime.

The Wall Street Journal reported:

Two former Afghan Mujahedeen and a six-year detainee at Guantanamo Bay have stepped to the fore of this city’s military campaign, training new recruits for the front and to protect the city from infiltrators loyal to Col. Moammar Gadhafi.

The presence of Islamists like these amid the opposition has raised concerns, among some fellow rebels as well as their Western allies, that the goal of some Libyan fighters in battling Col. Gadhafi is to propagate Islamist extremism.

Abdel Hakim al-Hasady, an influential Islamic preacher and high-school teacher who spent five years at a training camp in eastern Afghanistan, oversees the recruitment, training and deployment of about 300 rebel fighters from Darna.

Mr. Hasady’s field commander on the front lines is Salah al-Barrani, a former fighter from the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, or LIFG, which was formed in the 1990s by Libyan mujahedeen returning home after helping to drive the Soviets from Afghanistan and dedicated to ousting Mr. Gadhafi from power.

Sufyan Ben Qumu, a Libyan army veteran who worked for Osama bin Laden’s holding company in Sudan and later for an al Qaeda-linked charity in Afghanistan, is training many of the city’s rebel recruits.

Both Messrs. Hasady and Ben Qumu were picked up by Pakistani authorities after the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 and were turned over to the U.S. Mr. Hasady was released to Libyan custody two months later. Mr. Ben Qumu spent six years at Guantanamo Bay before he was turned over to Libyan custody in 2007.

They were both released from Libyan prisons in 2008 as part of a reconciliation with Islamists in Libya.  Sorry, link is dead but was from Full story Gateway Pundit

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Obama administration has no plan for captured terrorists

June 29, 2011 — bunkerville

 Our brave men and women capture the terrorists, risk their lives and the Commander-in-thief lets them go to kill again. I caught this story this morning on the Bill Bennett program. As he said, and to paraphrase, we are so caught up in our economic issues we are not paying attention to all that Obama is doing under the radar regarding our foreign policy and military support. Well worth reading the full story. Here tis:

The top military official involved in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden said Tuesday that the Obama administration has no clear plan for handling suspected terrorist leaders if they are caught alive outside a war zone.

In response to senators’ questions, McRaven said that “in many cases” suspects captured in secret operations by Navy SEALs or the Army’s Delta Force are taken to a U.S. Navy ship until they can be tried in a U.S. court or transferred to the custody of an allied country. But if neither option turns out to be feasible, the prisoner is ultimately let go, he said.

“If we can’t do either one of those, then we will release that individual,” McRaven said in response to a question from Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.). “I mean, that becomes the unenviable option, but it is an option.” Full story at Washington Post

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DIA Report Had Confirmed Released Gitmo Detainees Returned to Terror–in Afghanistan–Before Obama Ordered Closing of Prison

September 2, 2010 — bunkerville

CNS obtained via Freedom of Information, confirmation that many of the Gitmo dudes released went back to their old stuff. The take-away? Obama knew, and still lied about the situation. 

On Jan. 7, 2009, less than two weeks before Barack Obama was sworn in as president, a Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) report indicated that up until that date there had been 18 confirmed and 43 suspected cases of detainees who had been released from the Guantanamo Bay prison and who had returned to terrorism. The DIA released the report to CNSNews.com in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.

In a speech at the National Archives on May 21, 2009–six weeks after the DIA had reported that there were 27 confirmed and 47 suspected cases of terrorists released from Gitmo who had returned to terrorism–President Obama affirmed his decision to close the prison and argued that doing so was good for national security.

“Instead of serving as a tool to counter terrorism, Guantanamo became a symbol that helped al Qaeda recruit terrorists to its cause,” Obama said. “Indeed, the existence of Guantanamo likely created more terrorists around the world than it ever detained.
 
“So the record is clear,” said Obama. “Rather than keeping us safer, the prison at Guantanamo has weakened American national security.  It is a rallying cry for our enemies.  It sets back the willingness of our allies to work with us in fighting an enemy that operates in scores of countries.  By any measure, the costs of keeping it open far exceed the complications involved in closing it.  That’s why I argued that it should be closed throughout my campaign, and that is why I ordered it closed within one year.”

At the same time, Obama conceded in general terms that terrorists released from Guantanamo had indeed returned to terrorism–something he took care to point out had happened under the Bush administration. “[W]e are acutely aware that under the last administration, detainees were released and, in some cases, returned to the battlefield,” he said.

 
“I don’t really trust them at all because we haven’t had a very good track record,” Myrick told CNSNews.com. “It’s the same old thing. To me, the decision was made before they knew what they were really going to do with these people. That’s part of the issue. What are they going to do with them? Nobody really knows.”
 
The numbers have gradually increased. A Dec. 4, 2007 DIA report stated there were 31 suspected or confirmed detainees who participated in terror. A May 12, 2008 DIA report showed 36 confirmed or suspected terrorists.
 
In addition to the three detainees repatriated to Afghanistan cited above, some of the released Guantanamo detainees whom the DIA confirmed to have returned to terrorism included:

–Abdullah Saleh Ali al-Ajmi, who was repatriated to Kuwait in 2005. In April 2008, he was confirmed to have conducted a suicide bombing in the city of Mosul, Iraq, killing several Iraqi citizens. 
 
— Ibraham bin Shakaran and Mohammed Bin Ahmad Mizouz, were repatriated to Morrocco in July 2004. In September 2007, they were convicted for their post-release involvement in a terrorist network recruiting Moroccans to fight for al Qaida in Iraq.
 
— Ibrahim Shafir Sen was repatriated to Turkey in November 2003. In January 2008, he was confirmed to have been arrested in Van, Turkey and later indicted for his role as a leader of the al Qaida cells in Van. Sen also recruited and trained new members, provided illegal weapons to the group and facilitated the movement of jihadists. 
 
— Ravil Shafeyavich Gumarov and Timur Ravilich Ishmurat were repatriated to Russia in March 2004. Russian authorities arrested them in January 2005 for involvement in a gas-line bombing. A Russian court convicted both in May 2006, sentencing them to 13 years and 11 years respectively. 

–Shah Mohammed, who was repatriated to Pakistan in May 2003, and was later killed fighting U.S. forces in Afghanistan.

–Abdullah Majid al-Naimi, who was repatriated to Bahrian in November 2005, was arrest in October 2008. He had been involved in facilitating terrorism and was known for his association with al Qaeda.

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The Gitmo Gulag

June 10, 2010 — bunkerville

Here is a tough one to read. Sports injuries are the main medical problem at Gitmo? There is something wrong with this story. Here tis:

Yesterday’s Post story on the cost of Guantanamo detailed how many U.S. tax dollars had been invested in the naval base. When I traveled to Guantanamo last September, I also saw a lot of money being spent — mostly to improve conditions for detainees who were supposedly leaving in a few months.

Visiting Camp 4, I saw bulldozers lined up for a construction project. The officer in charge explained they were preparing to bulldoze away the gravel in the exercise yard and replace it with sand. Why were they going to such expense, I asked, since the facility is supposedly going to be closed in January? He said the terrorists — 95 percent of detainees are terrorist leaders, operatives or fighters — had complained that it was too hard to play soccer on the gravel, and they wanted sand instead.

The food the terrorists receive at Guantanamo is better than what American forces eat in the camp dining facility — and twice as expensive. The chef in charge of detainee food showed me how she prepared exotic Middle Eastern meals according to the Islamic standards of halal. In addition, terrorists receive special communal “feast” meals twice a week. According to one officer I spoke with, the military at one point spent $125,000 on baklava for the terrorists to enjoy each night during Ramadan.

Guantanamo officials have purchased satellite televisions for the terrorists, with access to al Jazeera and Arabic news and sports channels. Camp officials actually TIVO the soccer matches of the terrorists’ favorite teams for them. They also get the same medical care as our troops. In fact, their care gets higher priority. During my visit, one officer told me he was suffering from an impacted tooth, but his dentist appointment that day had been canceled because the dentist had to go see a detainee. A nurse at the detainee hospital — a state-of-the-art facility built at a cost of $18.2 million for the exclusive use of detainees — said the biggest health problems the terrorists face are sports injuries and becoming overweight from their 6,500 calories-per-day diet.

Indeed, conditions are so good at Gitmo that when one high-value detainee, Ahmed Ghailani, was transferred to the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City to stand trial for his role in the bombings of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, he was so unhappy he that he asked he be returned to Guantanamo while he awaits trial.

Read More: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2010/06/why_are_we_closing_a_gold-plat.html

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Key Gitmo Detainee Ordered Released

March 22, 2010 — bunkerville

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves”  Abraham Lincoln. And so it goes. Our judicial system will have us surrender.

Another notch for making us look like fools to the world. It is reported that there is no way he will be released. You Betcha.

A suspected al Qaeda organizer once called “the highest value detainee” at Guantánamo Bay was ordered released by a federal judge in an order issued Monday. Mohamedou Ould Slahi was accused in the 9/11 Commission report of helping recruit Mohammed Atta and other members of the al Qaeda cell in Hamburg, Germany, that took part in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Military prosecutors suspected Mr. Slahi of links to other al Qaeda operations, and considered seeking the death penalty against him while preparing possible charges in 2003 and 2004. Fox news reports that the court action is classified, Follow the link for lots more background from ace terror analyst Tom Joscelyn, who notes that U.S. intel had the goods on Slahi long before he was interrogated. If you want to know what precisely they did to him at Gitmo, go here, type in 166 in the page field, and read through to page 171. http://hotair.com/archives/2010/03/22/federal-judge-orders-release-of-gitmo-jihadi-who-recruited-four-911-hijackers/

Among Slahi’s most notorious recruits were four of the September 11 conspirators, all of whom were members of the infamous Hamburg cell. Slahi’s role in recruiting the Hamburg cell for al Qaeda is explained on pages 165 and 166 of the 9/11 Commission’s final report. Slahi arranged for Ramzi Binalshibh, al Qaeda’s point man for the 9/11 operation, and three of his cohorts to travel from Germany to Afghanistan so that they could train in al Qaeda’s camps and swear allegiance to Osama bin Laden. Binalshibh’s three friends were: Mohammed Atta, Marwan al Shehhi, and Ziad Jarrah–the suicide pilots of American Airlines Flight 11, United Airlines Flight 175, and United Airlines Flight 93, respectively. 

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704841304575138013356640710.html?mod=WSJ_latestheadlines

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Former Guantanamo detainee now al Qaeda in Arabian Peninsula’s Mufti

December 5, 2009 — bunkerville

Way to go- we capture, we send to Gitmo, We release them, they try and kill again.A former Guantanamo

Rubaish

 detainee has emerged as a leading ideologue and theologian for al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula – one of the strongest al Qaeda affiliates in the world.

Ibrahim Suleiman al Rubaish was captured by Pakistani authorities in late 2001 and then handed over to American officials who transferred him to Guantanamo. Rubaish was held there until Dec. 13, 2006, when he was transferred to Saudi Arabia and placed in the Saudi rehabilitation program for jihadists. At some point, Rubaish escaped from Saudi Arabia by fleeing south to Yemen.

In February 2009, the Saudi Kingdom placed Rubaish, along with at least 10 other former Gitmo detainees, on its list of 85 most-wanted terrorists. One of the former Gitmo detainees Rubaish fled to Yemen with, Said Ali al Shihri, is now the deputy of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which was formed when the al Qaeda branches in Yemen and Saudi Arabia merged.

Two other former Gitmo detainees who fled to Yemen along with Rubaish have been killed in shootouts. [See LWJ reports “Former Gitmo detainee killed in shootout” and “Another former Gitmo detainee killed in shootout.”]
Read more: http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/12/former_guantanamo_de_1.php#ixzz0Yp4n2nPG

Read more: http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/12/former_guantanamo_de_1.php#ixzz0Yp4O4PPT

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HA Exclusive: A conversation with Scott Fenstermaker

November 25, 2009 — bunkerville

It matters little about Scott Fenstermaker. Whether it is his 15 minutes of fame, or whether his intention is to diminish the United States as best he can. Of course, this in concert with the former law firm of our attorney General who is representing at last count, 17 of the detainees. We already knew that Eric Holder’s ambition was less than honest when he first stated they would be found guilty anyway, which of course, will cause the case to be dismissed on appeal no doubt.

Yesterday, I published a letter I received from a source within the DoD from the Office of the Chief Defense Counsel, in the Office of Military Commissions, that suspended Scott Fenstermaker as one of the civilian defense attorneys for the tribunals at Guantanamo Bay.  At the time, I tried contacting both the OMC and Fenstermaker in order to get statements about the authenticity of the memo and the circumstances surrounding the suspension.  In the evening, I did receive an initial response from Fenstermaker with a statement for publication.

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/11/25/ha-exclusive-a-conversation-with-scott-fenstermaker/

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Senate Approves Plan to Transfer Gitmo Detainees to U.S. for Trial

October 21, 2009 — bunkerville

The plan to permit terrorist suspects held at the facility to be shipped to U.S. soil to face trial passed the Senate by a 79-19 vote as part of a larger $44.1 billion budget bill for the Homeland Security Department.

Find out how your Senator voted: http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=1&vote=00323

For comments and amendments to bill: http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h2892/show

http://www.opencongress.org/roll_call/show/6228

And Jim DeMint, R-S.C., complained that negotiators also dropped a plan to require double-layer fences along 700 miles of the border with Mexico rather than vehicle barriers and high-tech equipment.

So now will they get civilian trials?  That is the question. It will be almost impossible due to discovery rules that would reveal names of  witnesses.

http://michellemalkin.com/2009/10/20/one-step-closer-to-bringing-gitmo-circus-to-u-s-soil/

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