{"id":24794,"date":"2015-01-15T16:42:46","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T21:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=24794"},"modified":"2015-01-15T16:42:46","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T21:42:46","slug":"the-cost-of-releasing-prisoners-from-guantanamo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=24794","title":{"rendered":"The Cost Of Releasing Prisoners From Guantanamo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most of the political left has argued for years that the prison at Guantanamo is a recruiting tool for terrorists. Never mind that 9\/11 happened before Guantanamo–that is their story and they are sticking to it. In keeping with the idea of closing Guantanamo (but not actually closing Guantanamo) President Obama<\/a> has not sent anyone there and is releasing prisoners a few at a time to any country he can bribe to take them. So what happens to these prisoners?<\/p>\n

Judicial Watch<\/a> posted a story today about one Guantanamo alumni. Mullah Abdul Rauf has been busy since his release in 2007 (under President Bush–before Obama).<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

…he\u2019s (Mullah Abdul Rauf) operating in Helmand province<\/a>, actively recruiting fighters for ISIS. Citing local sources, a British newspaper writes that Rauf set up a base<\/a> and is offering good wages to anyone willing to fight for the Islamic State. Rauf was a corps commander during the Taliban<\/a>\u2019s 1996-2001 rule of Afghanistan, according to intelligence reports. After getting captured by U.S. forces, he was sent to Gitmo<\/a> in southeast Cuba but was released in 2007.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rauf\u2019s Department of Defense Joint Task Force Guantanamo<\/a> file <\/a>describes him as being closely associated with several senior level Taliban commanders and leaders. It also says that Rauf admitted involvement in the production and sales of opium as well as associations with criminal elements within the Taliban and the Northern Alliance. From the file: \u201cDue to recent findings that detainee may have had a more important role within the Taliban than previously thought detainee\u2019s intelligence value has been updated from low to medium due to his possible knowledge of: (1) Taliban leadership, (2) Taliban command and control.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rauf is one of a number of Gitmo terrorists who have returned to the fight after getting released, yet Obama continues freeing captives to keep his campaign promise of closing the prison. Just this week he let four Yemenis go, despite the risk that they will likely join Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula<\/a>, the Yemen<\/a>-based terror group that claimed responsibility for last week\u2019s attack in France. In fact, dozens of freed Gitmo detainees have rejoined Al Qaeda in Yemen<\/a>, the country where the 2009 Christmas Day airline bomber proudly trained. In 2010 Judicial Watch reported<\/a> that a number of high-ranking Al Qaeda<\/a> militants in Yemen\u2014once held at Gitmo\u2014may have been involved in a sophisticated scheme to send bombs on a U.S.-bound cargo plane.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Traditionally, prisoners-of-war are released after the war is over. The people at Guantanamo are not technically prisoners-of-war–they are enemy combatants and therefore do not have prisoner-of war status. At any rate, I don’t think the war is over, and why should we release them to kill American soldiers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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