via Ex-Gitmo detainee reportedly gets al-Qaida role – Guantanamo- msnbc.com.
CAIRO, Egypt – A released Guantanamo Bay terror detainee has re-emerged as an al-Qaida commander in Yemen, highlighting the dilemma facing President Barack Obama in shaping plans to close the detention facility and decide the fates of U.S. captives.
A U.S. counter terror official confirmed Friday that Said Ali al-Shihri, who was jailed in Guantanamo for six years after his capture in Pakistan, has resurfaced as a leader of a Yemeni branch of al-Qaida.
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The article is talking about recidivism and what Obama should do about it. Recidivism is a huge problem right here in the U.S. when deals are struck with Americans who have killed as many people as al-Shiri and they are turned back onto the street after being imprisoned for a number of years only to murder again. This is not an Obama problem, criminals have been released throughout our history. Scooter Libby was released. He can repeat his offenses.
Al-Shihri was released by the U.S. in 2007 to the Saudi government for rehabilitation. But this week a publication posted on a militant-leaning Web site said he is now the top deputy in “al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula,” a Yemeni offshoot of the terror group headed by Osama bin Laden. The group has been implicated in several attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Yemen’s capital Sana.
Oh. 2007. Okay. Bush let him go.
Lastly, I just have to say that our judicial system is strong enough to prosecute and imprison war criminals like al-Shiri, or Bush.
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