BEIRUT, Lebanon — The emergence of a former Guantánamo Bay detainee as the deputy leader of Al Qaeda’s Yemeni branch has underscored the potential complications in carrying out the executive order President Obama signed Thursday that the detention center be shut down within a year [that is, during 2009].
The militant, Said Ali al-Shihri, is suspected of involvement in a deadly bombing of the United States Embassy in Yemen’s capital, Sana, in September. He was released to Saudi Arabia in 2007 and passed through a Saudi rehabilitation program for former jihadists before resurfacing with Al Qaeda in Yemen.
So, according to the New York Times's Robert F. Worth: The way the Bush administration let a terrorist go scot-free back to Saudi Arabia in 2007 "underscores the potential complications" in Obama's plan to handle detainees in a completely different way than Bush did.
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No, your logic is flawed. If one person who was let out can do this, imagine what would happen if we let them all out. Which is what shutting down the base will do. It would let them all out of GITMO.
It must stay open, the only way the terrists will learn is by being incarcerated indefinitely with no trial - that's the American way that we're trying to teach the rest of the world.
Glenn Greenwald hit on the same thing today...of course he was more long-winded about it.
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