"Islam has always been a part of America’s
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Obama May Release Terrorists Into The U. S. |
Obama hasn't decided whether or not to
release Guantanamo Bay detainees in the United States.
Spokesman Robert
Gibbels said President Barack Obama has made clear "we're not going
to make any decision about transfer or release that threatens the
security of this country."
Asked if that meant he was ruling out
releasing any detainees in the United States, Gibbs said: "I'm not
ruling it in or ruling it out."
A tentative plan to release some
Guantanamo detainees in the United States drew fierce opposition from
Republicans and many Democrats in Congress, forcing the Obama
administration to shelve the plan to bring some Chinese Muslims known as
Uighurs to Virginia. The Uighur detainees at Guantanamo were found
not to be enemy combatants by the Pentagon, but few nations have been
willing to accept them, out of fear of angering China.
This past
week, four of the 17 Uighurs being held at Guantanamo were sent to
Bermuda, and the Pacific islands nation of Palau said it would accept
others.
Gibbs told reporters progress has been made this week in
the administration's goal of closing the detention center in Cuba by
early next year.
Seven detainees have been shipped out of
Guantanamo so far this week. |
Obama Sends Terrorists Home |
U.S. officials say
three Guantanamo Bay detainees have been
sent home to Saudi Arabia.
The Justice Department say the trio will be subject to judicial
review in Saudi Arabia before they participate in a rehabilitation
program administered by the Saudi government.
With the latest
transfer, the Obama has freed 10 detainees from Guantanamo in the past
week, sending four to Bermuda, one to Chad, one to Iraq, and one to face
trial in New York City. That leaves 229 detainees still at the U.S.
military detention center in Cuba.
The three men sent to Saudi
Arabia are Khalid Saad Mohammed, Abdalaziz Kareem Salim Al Noofayaee and
Ahmed Zaid Salim Zuhair.
During a hearing in Guantanamo in
October 2004, Zuhair was
accused of involvement in the 1995
killing in Bosnia-Herzegovina of William Jefferson,
a U.S. official with the
United Nations. At the tribunal, U.S. officials said Jefferson's
watch was found on Zuhair.
Zuhair also was convicted in absentia
by a Bosnian court in a 1997 car bombing in the town of Mostar. He
also allegedly told another detainee he was involved
in the bombing of the U.S. destroyer Cole in 2000,
according to evidence presented at a Guantanamo proceeding.
Obama made a dumb campaign promise. Now, in order to placate his leftist
supporters, he's emptying Gitmo. He doesn't care how he does it, and he
doesn't care what the results of his political action will be.
There will be dead Americans, either on the battlefield or in the U. S.
mainland as a result of Obama's actions. |
Obama Flies Terrorists To Paradise |
Senior
aides to Obama
accompanied four Chinese Muslims and their lawyers on a
flight from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility to Bermuda.
The four Chinese Muslims, called Uighurs (WEE-gurs), were resettled in
Bermuda yesterday. The Obama administration insists they were not
enemy combatants and should be released.
All four of them are
members or associates of the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement
(ETIM/TIP), otherwise known as the Turkistan Islamic Party. The
ETIM/TIP is a U.S. and UN designated
terrorist organization affiliated with al Qaeda and has
attacked civilians in China, as well as reportedly plotted against other
targets elsewhere, including the U.S. embassy in Kyrgyzstan.
According to the State Department, ETIM/TIP members have also fought
alongside the Taliban and al Qaeda in Afghanistan. And last year
the organization threatened to attack the Olympic Games in China.
Three of the four Uighurs transferred to Bermuda also admitted that
they had firsthand ties to senior terrorists such as Hassan Mahsum and
Abdul Haq -- the leaders of the ETIM/TIP. Haq was recently
designated an al Qaeda terrorist by the Obama administration’s Treasury
Department, which noted that he is also a member of al Qaeda’s elite
Shura council. Mahsum was killed in a Taliban and al Qaeda stronghold in
northern Pakistan in 2003.
White House spokesman
Tommy Vietor says that White House counsel Greg Craig and the special
envoy charged with overseeing the closure of the prison at Guantanamo,
Daniel Fried, were aboard the plane. The two
were on the plane to carry the bribe money and to ensure that the
process went smoothly.
These terrorists eventually would be
eligible for citizenship, which would allow them to travel elsewhere.
The Uighurs hailed their new freedom, but Britain chided its
overseas territory saying it should have been consulted on the move.
Britain's Bermuda Governor Sir Richard Gozney told the territory's
Royal Gazette newspaper that the Uighur transfer was done without
permission. "The government of Bermuda should have consulted
with us because it carries with it foreign policy ground areas and
security issues," Gozney was quoted as saying, adding he was only
informed about the move earlier Thursday.
In Washington, a State
Department official acknowledged on condition of anonymity that the
British were livid. He said the United States consulted Britain about
the case, although possibly not long before the men boarded the plane.
China wanted the Uighurs back but the United States refused to send
them, fearing they would face torture or even execution.
US Attorney General Eric Holder
voiced gratitude to Bermuda, a hub of tourism and international finance
that is home to some 70,000 people, saying, "By helping accomplish the
president's objective of closing Guantanamo, the transfer of these
detainees will make America safer."
Something that most
people don't know is that The World Uighur Congress is
headed by Rebiya Kadeer who was jailed for more than five years
before being sent into exile in the United
States in 2005, where her championing of her people's
rights has led supporters to dub her the "mother of the Uighur people."
Obama continues to take care of
the "Brothers."
The
fallout -- The United Bermuda Party today moved for a motion of no
confidence against the Government led by Premier Ewart Brown.
Opposition leader Kim Swan proposed the motion in the House of Assembly
this morning.
He said it was necessary as the Island is
"increasingly subject to the politics of one man rule."
Said Mr.
Swan: "Why have we moved a motion of no confidence? The public
affairs of Bermuda are increasingly subject to the politics of one man
rule under the Premier, Dr. Ewart Brown. We consider this
unhealthy and not in Bermuda’s best interest.
"This is not just
about Uighurs in Bermuda, though that issue typifies a style of
leadership that is reckless, autocratic and conducted with no sense of
accountability to the people or, indeed, to Bermuda’s Constitution."
"...reckless, autocratic and
conducted with no sense of accountability to the people or, indeed, to
Bermuda’s Constitution." -- remind you of anyone? |
Obama Pressures Intelligence Agencies |
Military intelligence officials have quietly told Congress they advised
against transferring 25 of the 60 Guantanamo Bay terror detainees deemed
eligible for relocation by the Obama administration, including five who
are considered to be highly dangerous and likely to return to the
battlefield.
But the Defense Intelligence Agency officials did
not raise any formal objections with the administration because they
concluded the decision to move prisoners already had been made,
according to a letter Sen. Tom Coburn, a member of the intelligence
committee, sent Tuesday to Director of National Intelligence Dennis C.
Blair.
In the letter, obtained by The Washington Times, the
Oklahoma Republican senator questions whether Obama put political
considerations ahead of national security.
"The DIA told the
committee that DIA has not objected to the release of many rank-and-file
members of terrorist organizations 'due to an explicit understanding
that many detainees were destined to be transferred out of Gitmo
regardless of intelligence-based objections,'" Mr. Coburn wrote.
"DIA's admission that it is not objecting to the release of some
members of terrorist organizations due to a belief that policy
considerations will outweigh intelligence concerns is highly troubling
and highlights the need for the committee to hear from your office about
the judgments of all agencies on this matter," Mr. Coburn wrote.
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Obama’s War On The Truth |
Victor Davis Hanson, in his essay, "Just Make Stuff Up," says that in the
first six months of the Obama administration, we have witnessed an
assault on the truth of a magnitude not seen since the Nixon Watergate
years. The prevarication is ironic given the Obama campaign’s
accusations that the Bush years were not transparent and that Hillary
Clinton, like her husband, was a chronic fabricator. Remember Obama’s
own assertions that he was a "student of history" and that "words mean
something. You can’t just make stuff up."
Yet Obama’s war against
veracity is multifaceted.
Trotskyization. Sometimes the past is
simply airbrushed away. Barack Obama has a disturbing habit of
contradicting his past declarations as if spoken words did not mean much
at all. The problem is not just that once-memorable statements about
everything from NAFTA to public campaign financing were contradicted by
his subsequent actions. Rather, these pronouncements simply were ignored
to the point of making it seem they were never really uttered at all.
What is stunning about Obama’s hostile demagoguery about Bush’s War
on Terror is not that he has now contradicted himself on one or two
particulars. Instead, he has reversed himself on every major issue
--
renditions, military tribunals, intercepts, wiretaps, Predator drone
attacks, the release of interrogation photos, Iraq (and, I think, soon
Guantanamo Bay) -- and yet never acknowledged these reversals.
Are we supposed to think that Obama was never against these protocols at
all? Or that he still remains opposed to them even as he keeps them in
place? Meanwhile, his attorney general, Eric Holder, is as voluble on
the excesses of the Bush War on Terror as he is silent about his own
earlier declarations that detainees in this war were not entitled to the
protections of the Geneva Convention.
Politicians often go back
on earlier promises, and they often exaggerate (remember Obama’s
"10,000" who died in a Kansas tornado [12 perished], or his belief that
properly inflating tires saves as much energy as offshore drilling can
produce?). But the extent of Obama’s distortions suggests that he has
complete confidence that observers in the media do not care -- or at
least do not care enough to inform the public.
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