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2 Former "Rehabilitated" Gitmo Grads Appear in Al-Qaeda Movie
gatewaypundit.blogspot.com - 1/25/2009
2 Former "Rehabilitated" Gitmo Grads Appear in Al-Qaeda Movie
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Two Gitmo detainees rehabilitated in Saudi Arabia rejoined the jihad. Former detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Abu Sufyan al-Azdi al-Shahri (right) and former detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Abu al-Hareth Muhammad al-Oufi appeared in a threatening Al-Qaeda movie this week. Said Ali al-Shihri (or ...
nytimes.com - 1/23/2009
Freed by U.S., Saudi Becomes a Qaeda Chief
— nytimes.com — The emergence of a former Guantánamo Bay detainee as leader of Al Qaeda’s Yemeni branch underscores the... potential complications of closing the detention center. > (more) Freed by U.S., Saudi Becomes a Qaeda Chief

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google.com - 1/24/2009
AFP: Two ex-Guantanamo inmates appear in Al-Qaeda video
— google.com — 3 hours ago WASHINGTON (AFP) Two men released from the US "war on terror" prison at Guantanamo... Bay, Cuba have appeared in a video posted on a jihadist website, the SITE monitoring service reported. One of the two former inmates, a Saudi man ... (more) AFP: Two ex-Guantanamo inmates appear in Al-Qaeda video

Comments vote down Weekly Standard Blog found this 1/24/2009found this
Yemen News - Breaking World Yemen News - The New York Times
topics.nytimes.com - 1/23/2009
Yemen News - Breaking World Yemen News - The New York Times
— topics.nytimes.com — When Marxists took over the government of southern Yemen in 1970, many people fled to the north,... and a civil war raged for two decades. The conflict became a proxy conflict in the cold war, with the Soviet Union aiding South Yemen, and United States ... (more) Yemen News - Breaking World Yemen News - The New York Times

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Gitmo Class of 2007.....
Theo Spark — 2 Former "Rehabilitated" Gitmo Grads Appear in Al-Qaeda Movie. Looks like setting them free was not the best idea going. H/T Rico

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President Obama Today: Gitmo & Torture Executive Orders, Special Envoys
blogs.abcnews.com 1/22/2009 — Later this morning President Obama will sign new executive orders that will, among other tasks shut down the detainee center at Guantanamo Bay by January 22, 2010; shut down the CIA detention centers around the world; establish a process with...
What Obama's Torture and Gimto Exec. Orders Do -- And Don't.
marcambinder.theatlantic.com 1/23/2009 — "Sin is a suppurating wound; punishment is the surgeon's knife." The Bush Administration prisoner, torture and rendition apparatus was effectively dismantled today with four pen strokes. President Obama convened a panel to determine how to ...
Eyeing the wrong president
washingtonmonthly.com 1/24/2009 — EYEING THE WRONG PRESIDENT.... With Barack Obama closing down the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, stories like this are going to generate quite a bit of attention. The emergence of a former Guantanamo Bay detainee as the deputy leader of...
EU ministers to discuss taking in Gitmo detainees (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News
AP - European Union foreign ministers are forging a plan for taking in dozens of Guantanamo Bay inmates who will have no safe home upon release from the U.S. military prison.
Lawmakers troubled by reports on ex-Gitmo detainee (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News
AP - A congresswoman says reports that a man released from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is now an al-Qaida leader in Yemen should not slow the Obama administration's determination to quickly close the facility.
Obama to sign order shutting Gitmo in a year (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News
AP - President Barack Obama plans to sign an executive order Thursday to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center within a year and halt military trials of terror suspects held there, a senior administration official said. The executive order was ...
Draft order calls for closing Guantanamo Bay (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News
AP - The new Obama administration circulated a draft executive order Wednesday that calls for closing the controversial detention center at Guantanamo Bay within a year and halting any war crimes trials in the meantime.