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Title: Obama releases Gitmo detainees, setting up fight with GOP
Source: Washington Examiner
URL Source: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/article/2556502
Published: Nov 21, 2014
Author: Charles Hoskinson
Post Date: 2014-11-21 12:59:41 by nolu chan
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Views: 1515
Comments: 4

Obama releases Gitmo detainees, setting up fight with GOP

By Charles Hoskinson
Washington Examiner
November 21, 2014 | 12:12 pm

President Obama has opened a new front in his hard line against the incoming Republican Congress by releasing more detainees from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, against lawmakers' objections.

The Pentagon announced Thursday that four al Qaeda fighters from Yemen, including a senior figure who facilitated travel to Afghanistan for Arab extremists, and a Tunisian extremist would be transferred to Slovakia and Georgia.

The transfers leave 143 detainees at Guantanamo, which Obama has vowed to close. Republican lawmakers, who have been pressing the administration to stop releasing detainees amid reports that some former prisoners had joined the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, were furious.

"If just one U.S. soldier loses their life over these transfers, we will have failed in our duty to the American people,” said outgoing House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon.

"What the Obama administration is doing is dangerous and, frankly, reckless. They have chosen many times to put politics above national security. It’s time they stop playing with fire and start doing what’s right. Until we can assure the terrorists stay off the battlefield, they must stay behind bars," the California Republican said.

McKeon wrote Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Oct. 30 asking him to stop further transfers of detainees and confronted Hagel about the issue at a Nov. 13 committee hearing.

"Every time I certify and send up documentation to this committee, I am saying to this committee with my name and reputation that I believe that the assurances substantially mitigate the risk to this country and to our allies of certain detainee releases," Hagel told him.

According to the latest report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, 107 of 620 detainees released from Guantanamo, or 17.3 percent, had been confirmed as returning to terrorism as of July 15, and another 77, or 12.4 percent, were suspected of having done so.

One of those, Abdul Raheem Muslim Dost, has emerged as a leader of the Islamic State in Pakistan, according to the Pakistani newspaper Dawn.

Of the five whose transfers were announced Thursday, two, Tunisian Hashim Bin Ali Bin Amor Sliti and Yemeni Husayn Salim Muhammad Al-Mutari Yafai, went to Slovakia.

Three Yemeni detainees — Salah Mohammed Salih Al-Dhabi, Abdel Ghaib Ahmad Hakim and Abdul Khaled Al-Baydani — were released to Georgia.

The four Yemenis all had been in U.S. custody since 2002 after having been captured in Afghanistan or Pakistan. One of them, Yafai, came into U.S. custody after having been arrested in Iran and handed over to the Afghans. According to an April 2008 assessment, he was judged to be a high risk for returning to his past activities and was recommended for continued detention.

"Detainee is a member of al Qaeda who served as a travel facilitator, providing false travel documents for Arab extremists transiting Iran for entry into Afghanistan," the assessment said.

Sliti, the Tunisian, was a member of the Tunisian Combatant Group, an Islamist extremist organization founded by his cousin. He was captured in December 2001 by the Pakistani army and handed over to U.S. custody.

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#1. To: nolu chan, Jameson (#0)

President Obama has opened a new front in his hard line against the incoming Republican Congress by releasing more detainees from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, against lawmakers' objections.

Great move by Der Fuehrer!! Release ALL Gitmo Terrorists so they can help reorganize Muzzie terrorist cells...IN THE USA AS NEW AMERICAN CITIZENS!!

And who cares about what Congress sez about it? They no longer are part of the Government and need to vote on any legislation any more.

One of those [released detainees from Gitmo], Abdul Raheem Muslim Dost, has emerged as a leader of the Islamic State in Pakistan, according to the Pakistani newspaper Dawn.

Jameson...you must be SHOCKED!! But...but....0buma is the second coming of George Washington AND the Messiah!!

Liberator  posted on  2014-11-21   13:20:40 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Liberator (#1)

Catch and release.

nolu chan  posted on  2014-11-21   17:04:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: nolu chan (#0)

After the next two years, we won't have a free nation anyway. So, this action is hardly devastating news.

Don  posted on  2014-11-21   17:36:48 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Liberator (#1)

Great move by Der Fuehrer!!

Yet another reason to impeach. He probably will not be removed, but the votes against impeachment can be used against them in the next election cycle.

nativist nationalist  posted on  2014-11-21   20:32:24 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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