[ April 24, 2024 ]
Scores of prisoners released from Guantanamo Bay by Barack Obama have either gone missing or have been identified as likely to return to a life of terror, according to the very liberal leaning New York Times.
When Obama first took office, there were 242 inmates at Gitmo. When he left, there were 41.
And some of those have actually gone missing in Syria, setting America’s intelligence and military sectors on nervous notice.
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From Breitbart:
An estimated 150 former Guantánamo Bay prisoners liberated as part of former President Barack Obama’s efforts to shut down the U.S. military detention center “risk being killed—or could end up becoming threats themselves,” the New York Times (NYT) acknowledged this week. …
The previous administration reportedly convinced about three dozen nations to take in 150 “lower-risk” prisoners from dangerous countries like Yemen and Libya.
Senegal, one of the countries who took in some of the prisoners, already deported two of them back to “their chaotic birth country of Libya,” where they “vanished” once they “fell into the hands of a hard-line militia leader who has been accused of prisoner abuse,” the Times reveals.
According to the United Nations, hundreds of African migrants are being bought and auctioned off at “slave markets” in Libya.
The move by Senegal has prompted fears that other countries who took in Gitmo detainees may also begin repatriating them back to their dangerous home countries where they may return to jihadi activities.
NYT attempts to blame what it described as the “collapse” of the Gitmo prisoner resettlement system employed by the Obama and Bush administrations on U.S. President Donald Trump, who has refused to free any detainees, reporting:
[A] decision this month by Senegal to deport two former detainees to their chaotic birth country of Libya has raised the prospect that the resettlement system is starting to collapse under President Trump.
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The case sets a worrisome precedent, current and former officials said. The danger, they say, is that other countries may follow Senegal in forcibly moving more of the nearly 150 Obama-era resettled former detainees home to unstable places where they risk being killed—or could end up becoming threats themselves.
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The breakdown of the Senegal resettlement also appears to be at least partly a consequence of the disorganization that has afflicted the State Department since Mr. Trump took office. The Obama administration set up a high-level, centralized office charged with monitoring former detainees indefinitely and dealing with any problems. But Rex W. Tillerson, Mr. Trump’s first secretary of state, shuttered it, so that function was added to the long list of things individual embassies are supposed to track.
Former President George W. Bush liberated even more prisoners (532) than his successor.
Gitmo still holds 41 detainees, including many Yemenis, and 26 who have been deemed “forever prisoners,” or too dangerous to release.
The Trump administration has indicated that it will make decisions on whether to release Gitmo detainees “on a case-by-case basis,” but has yet to liberate any.
Nearly three out of every ten released Gitmo detainees are suspected or confirmed of having re-engaged in terrorist activities, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) reports.
In his quest to shut down Gitmo, Obama met bipartisan opposition in Congress, particularly to a primary tenet of the Democratic president’s proposal to close the military detention center—transferring captives onto U.S. soil.
Obama himself signed the legislation into law that prohibits the United States government from transferring prisoners to the United States.
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13 Comments
5 years ago
The US needs to trade HARMS (Homo African Racist Mudscum/Mudslime Socialist) To some country for American Political Prisoners held in captivity. In the meantime he should be arrested sent to GITMO to wait for the trade.
5 years ago
Well, duh!
5 years ago
This is nothing. They lost track of all five members of that “Taliban dream team” traded for the treasonous Beau Bergdahl faster than you can say “9/11”.
5 years ago
Midway USA has 34 of the conversion cylinders. The lyeberals are also trying to ban Black powder guns illegal as well.
5 years ago
Only Fools and pro-jihadis believe or trust muslim jihadi can be reformed.
Muslims are pathological liars. share this is anyone believes their Lies http://bit.ly/2rF8pfo
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5 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
Trudeau is spending tens of millions on programs for this in Canada. I don’t know if he really believes it can work ( can anyone really be that stupid ) or if it’s all a part of the Agenda to dismantle Canada, which of course would never be admitted to. Then again he sure is a fool and his lips seem to be permanently stained brown, but I’m going with ” puppet “.
5 years ago
Is anyone surprised?
That was the idea!
Of course hey returned to their jihad buddies.
5 years ago
Where they rehabilitated before release???
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5 years ago
I’m shocked…..SHOCKED, I tell ya…….(HEAVY on the sarcasm)
5 years ago
No! Who’d a seen that one coming?
Hint to our war fighters (especially the brass); dead terrorists may not give up information but death does Make it impossible for our next America hating president to release them…
5 years ago
The Nerogro sodomite sending them to their deaths. Never thought of it that way, didn’t ya?
5 years ago
They need to have slow nasty death televised.
