Washington Times
It's beginning to look like Yemen is the new Afghanistan - a failed Muslim state turned into an al Qaeda safe haven. The Christmas Day bombing plot was hatched there. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton declared yesterday that instability in Yemen poses a "global threat." The United States is conducting air strikes against jihadist militants. In a recent Fox News online poll, 60 percent of respondents agreed that this country should "organize an offensive in Yemen in response to Al Qaeda threats." Help is on the way from America, but unfortunately they are terrorist reinforcements.
Over the weekend, President Obama's top counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, reiterated the administration's intention to continue sending Guantanamo detainees back to Yemen. About a third of the remaining detainees at the U.S. military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are Yemeni, the largest single national group being held.
Six Yemeni detainees were returned in December, and "several of those detainees were put into Yemeni custody right away," Mr. Brennan said.
But according to a report from Yemen monitored by the BBC, the freed fighters "arrived in Yemen in order to arrange for the release procedures, question them and make them sign the required pledges that they will not join Al Qaeda after they are released." Call us cynical, but we doubt that "taking the pledge" is going to stop these men from finding ways to continue the jihad.One of the jihadists released in December is Faruq Ali Ahmed (Detainee No. 32), who, according to the October 2005 Administrative Review Board Proceeding, was accused of being one of Osama bin Laden's bodyguards while the terror mastermind was hunkered down in Tora Bora in December 2001. Mr. Ahmed denied having anything to do with bin Laden, saying he was in Afghanistan only to teach the Koran to children and was never involved with terrorism. Mr. Ahmed said that if he were released he would like to "play soccer, get married, get his own house and find a job in Yemen." He added that he "does not feel any animosity towards the United States." We hope that Mr. Ahmed settles down, gets a job, starts a family and plays a lot of soccer in his free time; but somehow we doubt it.
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15 comments:
Setting up a nice soccer league would do wonders for middle east aggression.
We have nice 'Asian' (ie Muslim) only soccer leagues in Britain at the moment as it happens.
Now if someone were to try and start up a 'WHITES only' soccer league...
Nickie, between you and Snarky, your article titles are making me choke on my morning coffee. They appear on my blog, as yours does, in the sidebar. This morning the titles from you two were priceless.
I think soccer is a great diversion from terrorism.
You blog is topical and is very beautiful!
I'm curious....do you do in life?
Elisa
Thank you for commenting on my blog!
This is really interesting what you have going here! I agree with you that they should all fight it out on a soccer field!
I'll call back for more information!
No one got excited when one of the low threat level (or whatever they called him) idiots released from there exploded himself in Iraq- why would this surprise?
PS yes GREAT title. Smug snarkery- gotta loe it!
PSS- yes I caught that it said,"loe" before I sent it. I just thought it looked funny.
Oh sure, Opie. Soccer is a great way to lessen tensions. I suggest attending a Livorno-Firenze soccer match. Wear armor.
JPT... Just a few years ago that would have been the Scottish Premier League.
Odie, I wish I could take credit, but it was on the original article. I, too, was drawn to it.
Elisa, you are too kind. Feel free to email me at americangoomba@gmail,com
Not you, Odie. That restraining order is still in effect.
Alice, thanks for stopping by. I'm looking forward to your dictionary being published.
Chup... always remember that loe makes the world go 'round.
ugh...and I was a soccer player back in the day...
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