Former Gitmo Detainee Resurfaces As Leader Of Al Qaeda In Yemen

January 23, 2009 · Filed Under Politics, War on Terror

It’s ironic that less than 24 hours after president Obama signed the absurd executive order to close Gitmo within a year, we learn about yet another terrorist returning to the fight. Said Ali al-Shihri was released from Gitmo back to Saudi Arabia 10-months ago and now he’s in Yemen serving as the No.2 man in the Yemeni branch of Al-Qaeda.

Al-Shihri supposedly completed a Jihad rehabilitation program in Saudi Arabia (I kid you not) and then was released. Basically, the Saudi’s put him through a program that tells him everything that has been drilled into his head since birth about Islam and infidels is all wrong and he shouldn’t believe it anymore. Problem solved! Yeah right.

Like all liberals, Obama is naive as hell when it comes to the war on terror. Gitmo is the perfect place to house these animals and should in fact be expanded rather than closed. In the end, he’s just going to have another Gitmo setup on U.S. soil and call it something else. Closing the facility in Cuba is purely symbolic and makes liberals feel good inside even though it doesn’t actually solve anything.

The idea that we should base our foreign policy in any way on what other countries think of us or restoring our supposedly damaged image is not only stupid — it’s dangerous. All the countries who bitch about Gitmo have suffered horrific terror attacks since 9/11 while Bush’s aggressive policies have kept us safe.

Obama should remember the old phrase “If it ain’t broke don’t fix it.”