One of the first things Barack Hussein Obama did upon acquiring his new office was to set the wheels in motion for the closing of Guantanamo Bay. While Team Obama tries to explain how granting constitutional rights to terrorists isn't a national security threat, Gitmo grads are garnering attention and seizing power within radical cells pretty much wherever they land.
Possibly trafficking on their tough-guy status in the terror world, or maybe just by using contacts forged at Club Gitmo, terrorists released (why the heck are we doing that??) from Guantanamo recently popped up in an Al Qaeda-Iraq video and are running Al-Qaeda-Yemen, among others.
A U.S. counterterror official confirmed Friday that Said Ali al-Shihri, who was jailed in Guantanamo for six years after his capture in Pakistan, has resurfaced as a leader of a Yemeni branch of al-Qaida.
"By Allah, imprisonment only increased our persistence in our principles for which we went out, did jihad for, and were imprisoned for," he said in a video posted on a militant-leaning Web site Friday. It was the second time this week a reference to al-Shihri has shown up on the Web site. He was mentioned in an online magazine on Jan. 19 with a reference to his prisoner number at Guantanamo, 372.
Al-Shihri was released by the U.S. in 2007 to the Saudi government for rehabilitation. But this week a publication posted on a militant-leaning Web site said he is now the top deputy in "al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula," a Yemeni offshoot of the terror group headed by Osama bin Laden. The group has been implicated in several attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Yemen's capital Sana.
The announcement from the militant site came the same day that President Barack Obama signed an executive order directing the closure of the jail at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, within a year.
For their part, Al Qaeda is probably having mixed feelings about the closing of Gitmo. On the one hand, I'm sure they're happy to see their fellow terrorists get one step closer to having their cases argued by a left-wing attorney in front of a liberal judge. But on the other hand, they might hate to lose an institution whose graduates are making such high-profile contributions to the cause.
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