Photos of Khaled Sheikh Mohammed smuggled out of Gitmo?
The photos, which show a relaxed and often smiling Mohammed, were published Wednesday by “Al-Ebdaa,” an jihadist media group, and documented by Flashpoint Partners, a global security company run by NBC News terrorism analyst Evan Kohlmann.
Kohlmann said the images appear to have been taken at GTMO, the U.S. Navy base and detention facility in Cuba, where Mohammed is currently facing a military tribunal with four other alleged al-Qaida members on murder and terrorism charges in connection with the 2001 terrorist attacks on New York City’s World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Pentagon officials told NBC News on Thursday that investigators were attempting to determine if the photos were in fact taken at GTMO or had been photo-shopped. If it is determined that they are photos from GTMO, the investigators would attempt to determine how the photos could have left GTMO.
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I hope they don’t show the Ensure-boarding.
forest on May 25, 2012 at 12:27 AM
Shrillary or Jarrett?
SouthernGent on May 25, 2012 at 12:34 AM
I’m guessing it was the lawyers.
LibertarianRepublican on May 25, 2012 at 1:03 AM
Hedgehog!
Yeah, it was one of the counsel from the law firm of Treachery, Treason and Malice.
Dirt McGirt on May 25, 2012 at 4:56 AM
If things can be smuggled out, things can be smuggled in.
Seems to me there are two problems; the smuggler and the guard. Get on it, people. Find and discipline ASAP.
Qzsusy on May 25, 2012 at 7:57 AM
Well of course! It all starts at the top. When the President is constantly spiking the football and the Secretary of State flaps her gums about intelligence assets why should anyone else be concerned about not leaking information to the press?
Mitoch55 on May 25, 2012 at 8:24 AM
We should start a rumor that the pics show KSM reading a Bible and he has converted to Christianity and renounced Islam.
kutabeach on May 25, 2012 at 9:44 AM
I’m sure it was one of the lawyers and I’m sure Eric Holder knows that lawyer personally. The law firm he left to become Attorney General has tons of people defending the creeps in GITMO.
Fezzik on May 25, 2012 at 10:05 AM
I think it is time to close Gitmo and throw these animals in real US prisons and make it a reality show. See how long these Fs last.
kcluva on May 25, 2012 at 10:21 AM
That can’t be KSM now.
He has a full beard.
Which would be a security problem, since one can hide contraband in long hair.
KSM must be shaved bald and beardless, right?
And in an orange jumpsuit, without a turban (another security risk).
If KSM is not bald and in a jumpsuit and minus any headgear, then the security minders at Gitmo should be in Gitmo themselves.
Lunatics and fools.
Our entire government and military.
profitsbeard on May 25, 2012 at 10:36 AM