--- ----- Original Message ----- From:23, 2009 3:00 PM Subject: "Guantánamo detainee resurfaces in terrorist group" Sent to my neighbor who is chief of the liberal page of our editorial section. Dear Harry, When the first one of these guys (such as Said Ali al-Shihri, the piece of human debris described below) who is identified as the mastermind behind the next (yes, there will be a next) U.S. mass tragedy say, 200,000 dead and 20 square miles lost forever to habitation the hand-wringers will have to work overtime to drape it on Bush 43s shoulders (but I know they will ultimately invent a means to do it). I thought you once went on a junket to the Pentagon. Im sure you were informed that every U.S./Coalition service member above the grade of E-2 (as well as all the spooks) know that Page 1 of every nationless Al Qaida terrorists playbook is their prime directive that if captured, immediately claim Ive been tortured to anyone that will listen, particularly visiting Red Cross and other bleeding heart simpletons. Theyre directed to beat each others faces or beat their own faces against the wall or floor to ensure visible signs of torture. I wish you had been more successful in convincing your peers of these techniques. But lets hope that al-Shihri never had to miss a nap or sit on a cold floor after all, were too civilized to allow that to a peer human being. Mike http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/01/23/mideast/detainee.1-414168.php <http://www.iht.com/> International Herald Tribune Guantánamo detainee resurfaces in terrorist group By Robert F. Worth Friday, January 23, 2009 BEIRUT: The emergence of a former Guantánamo Bay detainee as the deputy leader of Al Qaeda's Yemeni branch has underscored the potential complications in carrying out the executive order that President Barack Obama signed that the detention center be shut down within a year. The militant, Said Ali al-Shihri, is suspected of involvement in a deadly bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Yemen's capital, Sana, in September. He was released to Saudi Arabia in 2007 and passed through a Saudi rehabilitation program for former jihadists before resurfacing with Al Qaeda in Yemen. His status was announced in an Internet statement by the militant group and was confirmed by a U.S. counterterrorism official. "They're one and the same guy," said the official, who insisted on anonymity because he was discussing an intelligence analysis. "He returned to Saudi Arabia in 2007, but his movements to Yemen remain unclear." The development came as Republican legislators criticized the plan to close the Guantánamo Bay detention camp in the absence of any measures for dealing with current detainees. But it also helps explain why the new administration wants to move cautiously, taking time to work out a plan to cope with the complications. For those who fight for it, freedom has a flavor the protected will never know. -- L/Cpl Edwin L. 'Tim' Craft, B Company, 3rd AT's, Khe Sanh Combat Base, February, 1968 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [email protected]. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [email protected] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
