Ex-Gitmo Detainees Pledge Attack

Attack Cuba  Two Ex-Gitmo Detainees Renew Pledge To Attack Western Interests in New Al Qaeda Video..
by CBS News
Published: Mon, January 26, 2009 - 1:54 pm CST Last Updated: Mon, January 26, 2009 - 2:42 pm CST
Five days after President Barack Obama signed an executive order to close the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay within a year, two Saudis who were released from the controversial U.S. prison in 2007 renewed their pledge to attack western interests in a video released by Al Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula on the internet today.

“We assure our leaders Sheikh Osama Bin Laden, may God protect him, and Dr. Ayman al Zawahiri, that we shall continue to follow the path of jihad,” said Abu Sufian al Azdi Saeed al Shihri, a Saudi who was a prisoner at the Guantanamo prison.

“By God, our imprisonment has only made us more resilient and more committed to our principles that we had fought jihad and been taken prisoners for,” added al Shihri, who's now the deputy to the leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

Al Shihri also claimed in his lengthy speech that Arab governments had sent interrogators to Guantanamo to extract confessions prisoners. He also addressed Muslim prisoners held in U.S. prisons around the world, reassuring them that they are not forgotten, specifically mentioning blind Omar Abdel Rahman, Suleiman el Alwan and Walid al Senani.

Another former Guantanamo prisoner, Abu Hareth Mohammed al Oufi, appears at the end of the tape threatening Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef Bin Abdel Aziz, over the ill treatment of Islamist militants in Saudi prisons and warned against the Kingdom’s rehabilitation program, which he attended alongside his comrade, al Shihri, upon their return from Guantanamo.

He also renewed the threat against western interests in the Arab Peninsula and specifically in Saudi Arabia, assuring that they'll be attacked. “We tell the policemen of the Saud family, the guardians of the Jews and the Crusaders, repent to God what you have been doing by guarding the gates of their embassies, their churches, their compounds, and their military and intelligence headquarters.”

The leader of the group, the Yemeni Abu Bassir Bin Nasser al Weheishy, also appeared on the video and stressed on the importance of cutting supply lines serving U.S. forces present in the Arab Peninsula and on the need to attack westerners and western interests “until America stops its support to the Jews.”

Al Weheishy also assured Palestinians that al Qaeda was coming to their rescue. “We shall move towards our people in Gaza and Palestine, so rejoice O’ people of Jerusalem, the people of the victorious pact are heading your way.”

The fourth man appearing on the tape is the group's military chief Abu Huraira Qassem al Rimi, who was once the link between bin Laden and al Qaeda in Saudi Arabia. Al Rimi slammed Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Lebanese militant group Hizbollah for not “supporting Palestinians” with any of the rockets he claimed could reach Tel Aviv during the recent war on Gaza. “Don’t our brothers in Gaza deserve that you would support them with one, two or three thousands of those rockets?!” al Rimi told said.

All four men appeared sitting next to one another against an al Qaeda flag with weapons scattered around them. They appeared with their faces unmasked, as a sign of defiance to the Saudi and Yemeni security services.

The 19-minute video also includes footage of a large group of gunmen walking through mountain passes and undergoing training at a desert camp. The group had announced in its online magazine released last Wednesday that it had set up a camp to train militants with the aim of sending them to fight in Palestine.

The tape is entitled “From Here We Begin...In Al Aqsa We Shall mMet” and was produced by Malahem, a newly-established media house of al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
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or as they use to say….“shoot em all, let God sort em out”

Or make them listen to our political speeches for about 8 hours a day! After a day or two they would be water boarding them selves to relieve the Agony. I believe there should be a reasonable time limit on the length of time anyone can be held without a trial,different lengths for different accused crimes.Years before a trial would be unacceptable to me.If you can’t make a case in a year or two for continued imprisonment then you don’t have much of a case or either you don’t know what you’re doing or both.If I had my way,some of these Gitmo prisoners would already be on the way to meet their maker and wouldn’t have to worry about further confinement.

if we really wanted to torture terrorist we would make them watch monday night wrestling.  oh the pain.

they were not picked up for looking like a terrorist.  like the chinese at a afganastan terror training camp. they are not serving hard labor as american prisoners do (hopefully) they are catered to. now i am no fan of putin, but he is correct on this remark, after the school house takeover by terrorist.
We must create a much more effective system of security,” he said. “We couldn’t adequately react. ... We showed weakness, and weak people are beaten.” (Full story).

I really think the reason some people wanted this shut down was because they thought these prisoners were getting more than they were cause they used the name Gitmo.  They thought someone was gettin mo for free.

Yeah, releasing people who have been held for months or even years without being charged with any crime is waaaay too liberal for me.  Maybe our courts should work more like those in communist China.

now where were those chinese prisoners captured.

In June, the Supreme Court ruled in Boumediene v. Bush that Gitmo detainees are entitled to seek their freedom through federal habeas corpus cases.  This ruling has opened the door for more than 200 claims to include one that may soon release 17 Chinese Uighers captured in Afghan terrorist training camps.  The Uighers are a Muslim-Turk ethnic opposed to Chinese government control of their native region.

Last month, federal judge Ricardo Urbina demanded that the Bush administration produce the Uighers in his courtroom.  The judge said he intended to release them to the Washington, D.C. Uigher community.  Fortunately, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals issued an emergency injunction blocking their release.

now its not the bush adminstration relasing these animals back to kill more americans. its our liberal courts.

I’m sorry, but you are severely misinformed.  Most of the detainees come from Yemen, but others are from Azerbaijan, Algeria, Afghanistan, Chad, China, and Saudi Arabia.  We aren’t even involved in any active military engagements in most of these places.  Frankly, if you think that further restrictions on our way of life and further limitations on our freedoms is the best way to combat terrorism, then I have only this quote to leave you with:

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” - Benjamin Franklin

some interesting reading.

http://www.gitmocookbook.com/details.html

first we did not imprison 3000 innocent people, if it had meant saving 3000 innocent american lives yes i would. now think about it. why were they there? i doubt they were just walking down the streets of afganistan, iraq, pakistan and got pulled over.  do you remember the middle eastern man that was released from a prison in florida right after bush was elected. he was never charged. i do not feel sorry for these detainees i do still think about the 3000 plus we lost on 9/11.

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