Protests in Afghanistan over the Qur’an in the toilet rumor. “Afghan students say ‘Death to America,’” from AP, with thanks to all who sent this in: KABUL, Afghanistan – Afghan students chanted “Death to America” and burned an effigy of President Bush on Tuesday, following a report that copies of the Quran were desecrated at […]
The truth about the Guantanamo Four
Michael Radu at FrontPage looks at the case of the Guantanamo Four, and draws some important conclusions: Their names: Mourad Benchellali, Nizar Sassi, Brahim Yadel and Imad Achab Kanouni. Their current status: captured in Afghanistan by US forces, the four–all of whom are French citizens or residents– were held at Camp Guantanamo for over two […]
Released Gitmo detainees go back to fight U.S.
And why not? What has been done to disabuse them of their jihadist ideology? From UPI: “We’ve already had instances where we know that people who have been released from our detention have gone back and have become combatants again,” Rep. Porter Goss, R-Fla, chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence told UPI. […]
The Secret Pictures of Senior Airman Ahmad al Halabi
Halabi being escorted to his arraignment (AP) Daniel Pipes reveals some extraordinary information about Guantanamo interpreter and US Air Force Senior Airman Ahmad al Halabi at FrontPage: Halabi, a 25-year-old translator of Syrian origins, says he was naturalized as a U.S. citizen after joining the Air Force in January 2000, though this is a disputed […]
Where did he get this idea?
Australian jihadi David Hicks Australian TV is airing a sympathetic documentary about David Hicks, a convert to Islam who is now “awaiting before a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.” Piers Akerman in the Sunday Telegraph (thanks to Kevin) has a few choice words about this publicly-funded puff piece, but one section jumps out in […]
British Gitmo detainees walk
That didn’t take long. After getting heat from a lawyer and a single demonstrator (pictured) for questioning British citizens returning from Guantanamo, the British have freed them all. Report from Reuters.
Cuba? It was great, say boys freed from US prison camp
Since so much is made of the allegedly terrible conditions in Guantanamo, we thought it would be enlightening to bring in an opposing view from someone who was there. Of course, we have done this before. This is a related story, speaking of the boy featured in the older story, Naqibullah, but also of another […]
Security review again delays Muslim chaplain’s hearing
Continued strange goings-on in the Yee case. From the Miami Herald: For the fifth time, the Army on Tuesday delayed the pretrial hearing for a Muslim chaplain accused of mishandling classified information at the U.S. terror prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The Southern Command in Miami said Capt. James ”Youseff” Yee’s hearing at Fort Benning, […]
Freed from Gitmo, many rejoin Taliban
Here’s a “bombshell” from Donald Rumsfeld: terror suspects freed from Guantanamo Bay have been rejoining Al-Qaeda and the Taliban. This is no surprise, really. Two weeks ago we posted a story about the same thing happening in Afghanistan. Why should it be any different at Gitmo? From the New York Daily News, with thanks to […]
Ex-Guantanamo Translator Indicted
A linguist at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was indicted by a federal grand jury Wednesday for allegedly “gathering, transmitting and losing defense information” that was part of the military’s highly secret operation of interrogating suspected terrorist detainees at the prison camp there. So says an LA Times story. Ahmed Fathy Mehalba’s […]