After already freeing an al-Qaeda bomb maker last month -- over the objections of U.S. intelligence, which warned, "He would be capable of re-engaging as an explosives expert or trainer" -- the parole board that Obama set up to clear out Gitmo is now poised to rubber-stamp for release a close associate of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
Gitmo's so-called Periodic Review Board, made up of State Department and Justice Department officials, is hearing from defense lawyers for Abdul Shalabi, a former bodyguard to the late Osama bin Laden... who doesn't live anywhere anymore...
also connected to Mohammed while he was in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
, Pakistain, plotting the 9/11 attacks.
They argue that their client is now harmless and wants only to "take care of his ailing mother" in Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
while joining the family "real estate and construction business."
Military intelligence notes that Shalabi was trained "for participation in a suicide kaboom or deployment to the West" and warns that his family in Saudi Arabia didn't stop him from becoming radicalized before 9/11.