longwarjournal.org - 1/25/2009
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Said Ali al Shihri, former Guantánamo detainee and deputy leader of al Qaeda in Yemen. Photo from The SITE Institute.
Two former Guantánamo detainees appear in a newly released al Qaeda propaganda video, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, an organization that ...
timesonline.co.uk - 1/23/2009
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timesonline.co.uk —
Western powers believe that Iran is running short
of the raw material required to manufacture nuclear weapons,
triggering an international race to prevent it from importing more, The Times has learnt. Diplomatic sources believe that Iran s stockpile ...
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Iran in scramble for fresh uranium supplies
huffingtonpost.com - 1/27/2009
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huffingtonpost.com —
Here is the full text of President Obama's
interview with Al-Arabiya Arab TV Network: INTERVIEW OF THE
PRESIDENT BY HISHAM MELHEM, AL ARABIYA Map Room 5:46 P.M. EST Q Mr. President, thank you for this opportunity, we really appreciate ...
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OBAMA AL-ARABIYA INTERVIEW: FULL TEXT
huffingtonpost.com - 1/26/2009
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huffingtonpost.com —
UNITED NATIONS — President Barack Obama's administration will
engage in "direct diplomacy" with Iran, the newly installed
U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said Monday. Not since before the 1979 Iranian revolution are U.S. officials ...
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"Direct Diplomacy" With Iran Likely: UN Ambassador Susan ...
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Bill Roggio: Return to Jihad
Victory Caucus -- All Content —
... Sunday, 25 January 2009 Two former Guant namo detainees appear in an al Qaeda propaganda video. Both detainees have senior positions in al Qaeda in Yemen and have been accused of working with a charity operating in Iran. read ...
Moral Inversion and the Normalizing of Evil
Flopping Aces —
... is like and who does it. Her and her ilk of do-gooders evil-enablers are more inclined to believe these two were tortured at Guantanamo than to believe al Qaeda could have ...
See No Evil
Weekly Standard Blog —
... of these former detainees has since turned himself in and admitted that he had, in fact, rejoined al Qaeda’s ranks. We can be reasonably sure that the other 10 former detainees on the Saudi list are up to no good as well. It was a major embarrassment for the Saudis to admit that their rehabilitation program was not as effective as previously claimed. And one of these 10 detainees has assumed a leadership position in al Qaeda’s arm on the Arabian Peninsula. We know this because he has taunted us in an al Qaeda propaganda video. ...
Broadcasting Our Playbook to the Enemy
Flopping Aces —
... We have seen an estimated 1 in 7 Guantanamo graduates return to the battlefield, having convinced those “harsh” interrogators that they had reformed their ways, loved Americans, or were never a hardened jihadi, but a simple carpenter, tax driver, or peasant farmer that was in the wrong place at the wrong time. ...
About that Saudi Rehabilitation Program
Weekly Standard Blog —
... were former Gitmo detainees who were “rehabilitated” in the program. (One has since reentered Saudi custody.) One of these 11 is now a prominent leader of al Qaeda’s arm on the Arabian Peninsula. That ...
Obama Stands Alone On Yemeni Detainees
Weekly Standard Blog —
... were former Gitmo detainees who were supposedly “rehabilitated.” The 11 former Gitmo detainees left Saudi soil with the help of other Gitmo veterans and they all reportedly relocated to Yemen. One of the eleven, Said Ali al Shihri, is now the deputy head of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. This al Qaeda branch bombed the American embassy in Sanaa last year, killing six Yemeni police and seven civilians, including an American citizen. Another, ...
Why Was He Ever Released from Gitmo Again?
Commonsense & Wonder —
... Yousef Mohammed al Shihri was repatriated to Saudi Arabia in November 2007 along with thirteen other Saudi citizens. At least several of them have returned to al Qaeda’s ranks. One of those who rejoined al Qaeda is Said Ali al Shihri, who has become the deputy chief of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and was reportedly involved in the September 2008 attack on the US embassy in Sanaa, Yemen. According to memos prepared at Gitmo, Said Ali al Shihri is Yousef Mohammed al Shihri’s brother. However, according to a ...
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