Shocker: Released Guantanamo Detainee Now The Head Of Yemen Al Qaeda Cell
Yesterday Obama signed an executive order to close down the terrorist detention facility at Guantanamo Bay (despite never having actually, you know, visited the facility). Today we learn that a detainee released from Gitmo in 2007 is now the head of an al Qaeda cell in Yemen:
A U.S. counterterror official confirmed yesterday that Said Ali al-Shihri, who was released in 2007 after six years at Guantanamo, has resurfaced as a leader of a Yemeni branch of al-Qaida.
A reference to al-Shihri has shown up twice this week on a militant-leaning Web site. An announcement yesterday also included a video of a second militant who claims to be a former Guantanamo captive. The second man’s claim has not been verified.
The Democrats’ solution to this problem? Move the terrorists from Guantanamo Bay to Pennsylvania and give them lawyers. Because that’ll solve the problem.
According to ABC News, this particular Gitmo alumnus went through a terrorist “re-programming” class in Saudi Arabia which seeks to rehabilitate the terrorists by having them do art with crayons (video here).
Yes. Crayons.
What I’m most afraid of is that Obama, harried with pressure from his far-left base, will expedite the closure and release of current Gitmo detainees and all the work that went into capturing them in the first place will be lost as they return to their fellow extremists ready to take up jihad once again.
