Jan 24 2009
Ali al-Shihri, Who’d A Thunk It?
Ali al-Shihri, a former prisoner at Guantanamo Bay prison, jailed on terrorism charges has resurfaced according to a publication posted on a militant leaning Web site. He is being called a top deputy in “al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula.” The group is a Yemeni offshoot of Osama’s al Qaida and has been linked to several attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Yemen’s capital, which is Sana’a. He’s quoted by the Associated Press as saying,”By Allah, imprisonment only increased our persistence in our principles for which we went out, did jihad for and were imprisoned for,” seen on video. Boy, I didn’t see that coming but of course, I’m not as smart as the liberal elite who thinks these guys are being mistreated. Ironic, or a very ominous warning of what lies ahead, that it would surface on the day that President Obama, by executive order, moved to close Guantanamo in a year.
Ali al-Shihri apparently was released into Saudi custody for “rehabilitation” in 2007. You have to be kidding!! Rehab a drug user, sometimes, but a hate filled terrorist? I have only a masters degree in counseling but it doesn’t take a degree to know that was a really bad idea.
Close the prison so we can bring them all to the mainland where they can be rehabilitated and exposed to the very things that they hate us for but they’ll forget, right? Giving the kind of rights that the left wants to give to terrorists makes a lot of sense. Use our courts to set them free so that they can be free to kill more of us. Life without parole, no exception. Of course, if the conditions were reversed, our prisoners would be decapitated on video, which of course is not as bad a violation of prisoner rights as our vile use of water-boarding. I’ve heard no such protests about video taped murder from the same folks who protest water-boarding. There is something really wrong about that prospective, really wrong!!
Again, according to the Associated Press this time reporting from the Pentagon’s comments, there are at least eighteen former Guantanamo detainees that have returned to the fight and another forty-three are suspected of resuming terrorist activities. How did all these people get out? As the saying goes, ‘we have no one to blame but ourselves’ the next time we are attacked and we will be attacked. Thank you President Obama for a decision that will increase the odds by taking another disincentive away from our arsenal to fight terrorists. The world has begun to turn upside down.
