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Washington.– Two men released from the US "war on terror" prison at Guantanamo Bay, in 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 identified as Abu Sufyan al-Azdi al-Shahri, or prisoner number 372, has been elevated to the senior ranks of Al-Qaeda in Yemen, a US counter-terrorism official told the press.

Three other men appear in the video, including Abu al-Hareth Muhammad al-Oufi, identified as an Al-Qaeda field commander. SITE later said he was prisoner No. 333. A Pentagon spokesman, Commander Jeffrey Gordon, on Saturday declined to confirm the SITE information.

"We remain concerned about ex-Guantanamo detainees who have re-affiliated with terrorist organizations after their departure," said Gordon.

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26 comment(s)
Written by: josean, 25 Jan 2009 1:32 PM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
If Georgie Bush had tried them in the regular federal court system they might still be jail!
Written by: gmiller261, 25 Jan 2009 2:51 PM
From: United States

Big F...en deal.

They hate the US (always will), they hate each other (always will). Close the US borders and let them kill themselves.

President Obama, I hold you to your word, the US getting out of the middle East and alternative energies. Let them eat their sand and oil.
Written by: Trujillo, 25 Jan 2009 3:14 PM
From: Dominican Republic
They don't just hate the US. They hate Latin America, Europe, Asia and everyone else who's not a muslim. They want to covert everyone to their religion by force.
Written by: walnut, 25 Jan 2009 6:13 PM
From: Bouvet Island, Cayuga lakeside
I cringe when I hear Obama talk about closing Gitmo. Where are these guys going to end up? Back blowing up their enemies, who are anyone not Muslim...and sometimes even Muslims.
There was a story circulating that Bush had introduced the plague into Gitmo shortly before his Presidency ended.
Is that what we have devolved to?
Written by: anthonyC, 25 Jan 2009 9:33 PM
From: United States
"President Obama, I hold you to your word, the US getting out of the middle East and alternative energies. Let them eat their sand and oil."

When did the Annointed one say he was going to get the US out of the Middle East?
Written by: Jander, 25 Jan 2009 9:49 PM
From: Dominican Republic
We are going to be living with what the Bush administration has done and not done for a very long time. But there hasn't been another attack on US soil , so if that was his only goal then he did his job. How he did well be argued and debated for decades..

If these guys at Gitmo hated us before just think how much they hate us now.

Lets hope it is handled diligently.

Written by: gmiller261, 26 Jan 2009 9:27 AM
From: United States

anthonyC, You are correct he did not say those words directly. I stand corrected.

Jander, I absolutely agree. He did his job. 911 was frightening.

If we are not going to wipe them out then we have to eliminate their money access. This would curtail their ability to find new recruits and make long range plans. The middle East does not make money at $40 a barrel.
Written by: chillaxin201 This user is banned, 26 Jan 2009 10:03 AM
From: Dominican Republic, Boycott Dominican Tourism
some say that the prisons help recruitment,
Written by: gmiller261, 26 Jan 2009 1:31 PM
From: United States

chillaxin201, I would have to agree. They use it as propaganda.

Our form of justice does NOT scare them, it is a vacation compared to what they had/have.

They were scared of Saddam, but cut their kahoonies off


Written by: generoso, 26 Jan 2009 3:15 PM
From: United States, Quisqueya
These prisoners for their own good and of humanity should be applied the "law of escape".
In few words the guards let the prisoners "escape" and they are later hunted down and die in a
"shots exchanged" situation.
According to their religious beliefs they will go to paradise and since they are martyrs be attended
by a harem of 69 virgins or so.
So it works both ways, they will fulfill their deepest desires of their Muslim religion and go to martyr heaven and that will be the end of future problems for us.
Written by: josean, 26 Jan 2009 4:15 PM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
Professor,

You are off by 8. Its 77 virgins, but I can see where your mind is by saying 69!
Written by: brootto, 26 Jan 2009 4:46 PM
From: United States, South West Florida
many of those individuals were not terrorist, they became after they were turture in gitmo so it is a payback they are trying
Written by: Sigma, 26 Jan 2009 6:45 PM
From: United States, Dom Rep/Haiti
Brotto
Wake up buddy.

Written by: yumnuk3, 26 Jan 2009 9:06 PM
From: United States, ø„¸¨°º¤ø„¸¸„ø¤º°¨¸„ø¤º°¨
Does anyone else see the irony of Sharia law? They have Virtue and Vice police that beat women if they show too much of themselves. Heck, they blame the woman when she is raped. Then, they propose a sexual orgy as a reward for jihad? Can anyone really take this cult seriously? How can over a billion people be so self deluded. What is wrong with these people? Folks, when you die, you are dead. You don't go to some ordained brothel. There may well be an afterlife, but a reward of sensual pleasure is an obvious human imaginary concept.

Written by: josean, 26 Jan 2009 9:11 PM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
Well said yumnuk3 !
Written by: generoso, 26 Jan 2009 10:05 PM
From: United States, Quisqueya
Although I basically disagree with the preventive war doctrine and the Iraq invasion, these fanatic muslim fundamentalists will not rest, unless they can eliminate the western world as we know it.
The only thing that they really RESPECT and understand is brute force and unmerciful devastation.
So I propose doing unto them before they do it unto us, and bring all our troops home and place the responsibility for the "cleaning" of these "infidels" as they call us in care of small groups of the Delta forces and Navy seal teams armed with the latest suitcase clean nuclear weapons to be detonated systematically in their countries until they get the message that we are not to be fooled with and threatened.
Once we dispose of a few million of the hard core muslim fundamentalists maybe they will get the message and be still and not try to export their middle age religious beliefs upon us.
Written by: yumnuk3, 27 Jan 2009 12:23 AM
From: United States, ø„¸¨°º¤ø„¸¸„ø¤º°¨¸„ø¤º°¨
Every person living in a western democracy should read the Koran and discover the relentlessness with which non-Muslims are vilified in its pages. The idea that Islam is a "peaceful religion hijacked by? extremists" is a dangerous fantasy.

The Koran on unbelievers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5D34nh12K2s
Written by: josean, 27 Jan 2009 8:06 AM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
"Once we dispose of a few million of the hard core muslim fundamentalists maybe they will get the message and be still and not try to export their middle age religious beliefs upon us."


Professor,

I am truly amazed at your post, maybe these quotes from the Mahatma may help you reflect on your statement of what I feel, respectfully, is filled more with frustration than hatred. I really don't see you as hateful man, just frustrated like most of us, well maybe just me.

"Fear is not a disease of the body; fear kills the soul." Gandhi


"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind." Gandhi
Written by: generoso, 27 Jan 2009 8:51 AM
From: United States, Quisqueya
I stopped being a pacifist long ago, I don't even turn the other cheek anymore.
Look at the recent score:

warmongers, terrorists and other crazies= 12
pacifists= 0
Have to stop taking it with no lube.
Written by: josean, 27 Jan 2009 9:02 AM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
Believe professor I am the furthest thing you could imagine from being a pacifist, but I aspire to be!

Fighting barbarism with more barbarism just leads to even worse barbarism! Let us not forget the Crusades!
Written by: generoso, 27 Jan 2009 9:11 AM
From: United States, Quisqueya
The world is changing my friend.
My new motto:
To survive you have to fight fire with fire.
It's a jungle out there.
I mean, doesn't the metro piss you off?
A monument to graft and corruption, built just for that purpose, while we just look as bystanders with
no right to argue against?
Oh, Oh I touched a hot button now!
Written by: josean, 27 Jan 2009 9:16 AM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
"I mean, doesn't the metro piss you off?
A monument to graft and corruption, built just for that purpose, while we just look as bystanders with no right to argue against?

Oh, Oh I touched a hot button now!"

No actually that statement has a very calming effect, Thank You for the medication!
Written by: josean, 28 Jan 2009 7:54 PM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
Boy talk about adding fuel to the fire!

HERE is a SHOCKER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Story?id=6750266&page=1
Written by: generoso, 28 Jan 2009 8:23 PM
From: United States, Quisqueya
josean
He was a Muslim too, another sexually repressed male creating havoc.
The drug of choice for these sex rapists is not Xanax or valium it is called "rohypnol", because the victims specially when mixed with alcohol can not remember a thing.
Written by: josean, 28 Jan 2009 8:26 PM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
The drug of choice for these sex rapists is not Xanax or valium it is called "rohypnol".

He should have checked with Rush "Right Wing Drug Expert" Limbaugh!
Written by: tejano, 8 Feb 2009 7:03 PM
From: United States
They should have killed them when they had the opportunity. They will kill innocent people again. Death is the only thing they understand and if they are willing to die for allah we should be good neighbors and help them.
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