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| Obama Orders First Release of a "High-Value Detainee"? |
| 2009-12-22 |
Another important note about the Obama administration's transfer of Gitmo detainee Abdullahi Sudi Arale to Somaliland: In June 2007, Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman called Arale a high-value detainee.""Abdullahi Sudi Arale is suspected of being a member of the Al Qaeda terrorist network in East Africa, serving as a courier between East Africa Al Qaeda (EAAQ) and Al Qaeda in Pakistan. Since his return from Pakistan to Somalia in September 2006, he has held a leadership role in the EAAQ-affiliated Somali Council of Islamic Courts (CIC). That phrase was reserved for less than twenty detainees. As far as I know, the U.S. has never transferred a "high-value detainee" from its custody. One "high-value detainee," Ahmed Ghailani, was transferred to New York for trial. But he is, of course, still detained by the U.S. Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian who faces terrorism charges for his role in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies, asked a judge to order U.S. prosecutors to surrender information about "black sites" where he was held. Does this mean that Arale was the first "high-value detainee" ever transferred from American custody? |
| Posted by:Sherry |
| #3 Yeah - stick a US $250,000 bank deposit into a bank book bearing his name, and leaflet drop copies of that bank book all over Somaliland. Then, grab a bag of popcorn, and watch. |
| Posted by: Lone Ranger 2009-12-22 21:30 |
| #2 Of course he was released - he cooperated in all sorts of secret anti-AQ ops over the last two years. Didn't he? I'm sure that's the only reason we would ever release any of those prisoners. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2009-12-22 20:02 |
| #1 Geeze louise. If you wanna look like a "good guy", fine. Release these pigs, go ahead. But have the good sense to have them whacked in some dark alley shortly after release, huh? |
| Posted by: mojo 2009-12-22 14:17 |