Wednesday, January 13, 2010

GITMO 'grads' behind crotch bomber?













From the BBC:
Yemen al-Qaeda link to Guantanamo Bay prison

By Peter Taylor
BBC News

The failed Detroit airliner bomb attack on Christmas Day awakened the world to the threat from al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), a group that until then was hardly a household name.

Said al-Shihri, left and Mohammed al-Awfi (January 2009)
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) was formed in January 2009

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a young Nigerian who allegedly came within an ace of killing almost 300 passengers and crew with a bomb hidden in his underwear, said he had been trained and sent by its leaders.

US President Barack Obama's embarrassment and anger at the potentially catastrophic failure of intelligence which allowed Mr Abdulmutallab to board the plane has been compounded by the revelation that two of AQAP's founders, Said al-Shihri and Mohammed al-Awfi, were both former Guantanamo detainees.

Several AQAP foot soldiers are also former Guantanamo prisoners.

This only confirms the fears of critics vehemently opposed to Mr Obama's promise to close the prison camp by the end of this month...


There is more, here.

As the BHO administration refuses to call these 'isolated incidents' what they are: terrorism - the rest of us have connected the dots.

KEEP GITMO open!!!

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