The Long List of Gitmo Returnees to Terrorism

By Bob Ellis on January 28th, 2009

j0341714I apparently missed this former Club Gitmo guest who returned to terrorism after his retreat from the stress of jihad.

Fox News featured a story today about Abdallah Ali al-Ajmi  who left the sandy beaches of Club Gitmo only to blow himself and 12 other people up in a terrorist attack in Mosul, Iraq.

From the Fox News article:

Al-Ajmi’s attack is one of the most well known and well documented cases of an ex-Gitmo detainee returning to the battlefield as a homicide bomber. His video renews concerns of many in the intelligence community of the potential consequences by releasing these prisoners.

I’m usually alert for such things, but somehow I missed this last April. I know it couldn’t be because the “mainstream” media didn’t publicize it. After all, news about a released terrorist returning to terrorism would be big news concerning national security.

That makes quite a few Gitmo guests who have returned to terrorism that we’ve heard about lately–even as President Obama considers closing down the resort, er, POW camp.

Pretty soon someone will have to start a club for terrorists who have come out of retirement…that is, if they don’t all blow themselves up first.

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  • Robert
    Mixing up cause and effect much?

    "A McClatchy investigation found that instead of confining terrorists, Guantanamo often produced more of them by rounding up common criminals, conscripts, low-level foot soldiers and men with no allegiance to radical Islam — thus inspiring a deep hatred of the United States in them — and then housing them in cells next to radical Islamists."

    http://www.mcclatchydc.com/detainees/story/3877...
  • Might make a good case for keeping the common criminal types segregated from the more militant types...and for keeping the militant types locked up until the War on Terrorism is over...as long as that takes.

    Successful people and nations don't throw in the towel because of a few challenges.
  • Is there any particular reason you haven't mentioned that this guy was released by Bush political appointees over the advice of the military and without any trial or even review of the evidence?
  • Not in particular. Liberal pantywaists are pretty much the same, whether in the Bush administration or the Obama administration.

    I think that any problems with this seen in the Bush administration reveal Obama's plan to close Club Gitmo down as going whole-hog on what was once a more limited mistake.
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