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Office Established to close Gitmo......Closes

Whitewing

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The State Department on Monday reassigned Daniel Fried, the special envoy for closing the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and will not replace him, according to an internal personnel announcement. Mr. Fried’s office is being closed, and his former responsibilities will be “assumed” by the office of the department’s legal adviser, the notice said.

The announcement that no senior official in President Obama’s second term will succeed Mr. Fried in working primarily on diplomatic issues aimed at repatriating or resettling detainees appeared to signal that the administration does not currently see the closing of the Guantánamo Bay prison as a realistic priority, despite repeated statements that it still intends to do so.

As recently as last week, when asked at a White House press briefing about the president’s first term promise to close Guantanamo Bay, Jay Carney reiterated the president’s promise: “As you know, the president remains committed to that. He agrees with military leaders as well as his immediate predecessor that we ought to do that. There are obviously obstacles in Congress to that, but we will continue to work towards that goal because he believes it’s in the best interests of our national security.”

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/339044/office-established-obama-intent-closing-gitmo-closes-patrick-brennan#

Remember when prisoner rights, habeas corpus, detainees never being charged with a crime, etc had one particular loud mouth here outraged with GWBush?

Today? Not so much.

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hypocritexposer

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I'd criticize this decision making process, but OT would probably think I was whining about GITMO not closing. :lol:


I'll let Tam take a stab at it. I'm pretty sure she was "FOR" the closing of GITMO. :lol: :lol: :p :wink:
 

Steve

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:shock: It's not closed? :shock:

wasn't that done by executive order in the first term .. :shock: :eek:

Al Qaeda Commander Killed for the Third Time

This story was updated on Jan. 24, 2013.

The second in command of al Qaeda's Yemen affiliate was reportedly killed in an airstrike in Yemen in December, according to a news report by Arabic television network Al Arabiya, the third time the former Guantanamo detainee has been reported dead since 2010.

According to the report, Said al-Shihri died last month after sustaining severe injuries from a joint U.S.-Yemeni airstrike that targeted a convoy in which he was riding. The al Arabiya account, based on information from "family sources," said that the airstrike left al-Shihri in a coma. He allegedly died soon after and was buried in Yemen.

Al-Shihri, a "veteran jihadist," traveled to Afghanistan shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks to fight coalition troops, only to be captured weeks later, according to West Point's Combating Terrorism Center. He was sent to the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where he stayed for six years before being released

There, he entered a so-called "jihadi rehab" program that attempted to turn terrorists into art students by getting them to get "negative energy out on paper,"

But just months after he supposedly entered the fingerpainting camp, al-Shihri reappeared in Yemen where he was suspected to have been behind a deadly bombing at the U.S. embassy there.

Gitmo is just a recruiting tool for al qaeda... maybe if they stop letting them out,.. it would lower the number of "recruits"
 

hypocritexposer

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Mike said:
Ya'll are going to have to stop making fun of the "Fat One" he getting a complexion? :wink:

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