From Hot Air When does the military’s compliance with international law qualify as bad news ? When you…

Today, President Obama signed an Executive Order to delay a decision his administration will soon need to make. By signing the order within the first 48 hours of his presidency, he throws a bone to the liberal left, placates them with a quick salvo fir…

REPORT: EX-GITMO DETAINEE NOW AL-QAIDA LEADER IN YEMEN

CAIRO, Egypt – An Internet posting purportedly by al-Qaida in Yemen says the group’s No. 2 is a Saudi national who is a former Guantanamo detainee.

The Yemeni group – known as “al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula” – posted the statement this week on a militant Web site that regularly carries al-Qaida messages.

It says the man returned to his home in Saudi Arabia after his release from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba about a year ago and from there went to Yemen to join the terror group.

The Internet statement identified the man as Said Ali al-Shihri and says his prisoner number at Guantanamo was 372.

The posting could not immediately be verified, and Yemen and Saudi Arabian authorities would not immediately comment on it.

However, if we had executed them all years ago we would have lost invaluable intelligence about AQ operations and sleeper cells which has saved lives.

Naahh, it means you just don’t start asking questions until you get close to the end of the line.

………. Mr. Obama is and the rest of his liberal moron associates a child are children playing in a man’s game.

Seven Percent Solution on January 23, 2009 at 5:05 AM

Brilliant!!… I took the liberty of some minor adjustments but your original thought is a classic

profitsbeard on January 22, 2009 at 7:45 PM

You’re right about Bush’s failure to communicate. However, if we had executed them all years ago we would have lost invaluable intelligence about AQ operations and sleeper cells which has saved lives.

This and this are must reads about GITMO, by Lt. Col. Gordon Cucullu.

Turn Gitmo into a Club Med!!!

Water Boarding is an activity!!!!

Harsh language will not be tolerated.

We “own” Guantanamo Naval Base…giving it to the United States was a pre-condition for Cuban independence. Can’t remember the year, in the late 60’s, I believe, but at that time the Castro government cut off all water and electricity to Gitmo, and forbade any Cubans from working there. A triple wall of wire surrounds the base where it meets Cuban land. All access to Cuba is cut off, save for one gate from which a US liaison officer and team at times/some times enter Cuba for short/terse meetings with local Cuban officials. We pay a “rent’ for Gitmo, a sort of lease, but the Cuban government since Castro took over has refused to cash any of the checks, which are still sent to the Cuban government annually. US military members there are subject to US law…the UCMJ. Because of a quirkiness to the rules regarding our obtaining/maintaining Gitmo, “civilians” are subject to Cuban law, not US law, hence the legality issue of the non-US military detainees at Gitmo, they are not subject to US civil law, and Cuba cannot enforce Cuban law upon them, for to do so would require the Castro government to recognize American hegemony over the Guantanamo Naval Base, a de facto recognition of the US government as a legitimate owner of Gitmo. Being extra-territorial ground, it has the unique character of not being subject to any national law, at least for the non-military personnel there. We use it as a naval training base from time to time, though this mission has waned significantly over the decades. We maintain it simply because we can…and Cuba cannot do anything to remove us, treaty or no treaty.

gordo on January 23, 2009 at 1:31 AM –

The footprint of Camp Delta is about one city block, perhaps two, out of about 40-50 square miles of space. At one point during the 1970’s we housed Cuban refugees there to screen them prior to their being moved elsewhere as legal immigrants.

This man is going to get people killed.

blatantblue on January 22, 2009 at 4:45 PM

Only a matter of time. When it happens we MUST let him know IMMEDIATELY that we hold him directly responsible.

By Dr. Orly Taitz, Esq.
I wanted to thank everybody for concern and well wishes. I just got (h)ome from TX after some 48 hours with only 3 hours of sleep.
TX judge Burt Carnes has allowed me to represent Jody Brockhausen against Secretary of State of T…

By Dr. Orly Taitz, Esq.
I wanted to thank everybody for concern and well wishes. I just got (h)ome from TX after some 48 hours with only 3 hours of sleep.
TX judge Burt Carnes has allowed me to represent Jody Brockhausen against Secretary of State of T…

gordo on January 23, 2009 at 1:31 AM

It is a Navy base, but we’re there by force, the Cuban government does not want us. Because it employs so many of its citizens, they “tolerate” it. He could just be closing Gitmo the base as a ruse to keep the detainees there. Lots of bases get “closed”, but some essence of the original mission lives on to some degree in the town/city/municipality/airport that absorbed it.

uh…or something…

Then, he comes in and on day 2 he issues the order to close Gitmo, while at the same time admitting that he doesn’t know what to do with the detainees and they will study it.

It’s all about making an impression on his leftist friends in the MSM. He’s too stupid and arrogant to understand that the people who are most impressed are al Qaeda. This is a recruiting boon. And Bush had them on the ropes.

Obama signs a two-part executive order mandating that
A) the non-consentual tickling of a captive’s instep shall henceforth be considered torture and will be banned.

~and
B) women’s underwear shall be forbidden in all Theaters of War to prevent them ending up on the heads of Al Qaeda prisoners.

Plus, a new gratis Koran, to be handed to all Muslim detainees, will have Obama’s iconic face on the cover.

Motto for the next four years:

Yes, we’re screwed.