After Paris, Why's Obama Still Freeing al-Qaida Terrorists?

1/14/2015

Radical Islam: U.S. intelligence has linked two of the Paris terrorists to al-Qaida in Yemen while warning of new terrorist threats against America. So why would Obama dump more al-Qaida detainees onto the Muslim street?

Our commander in chief knows that almost one in four Guantanamo Bay al-Qaida transfers return to the jihad. Yet even after the Paris attacks, he is pressing ahead with his plans to empty that prison.

Over the past 12 months, Obama has cut loose 30 Gitmo detainees, including 15 in just the last month — most of them al-Qaida operatives. And he promises many more to come. At this accelerated schedule of release, virtually all the remaining prison population of 127 could be sprung by the end of this year.

The mass parole of enemy combatants is unprecedented in a time of warfare. Prisoners of war are being released by the planeload during heightened conflict, as the tempo of war increases. That's never happened before in the history of warfare.

To continue to free hardened terrorists amid a global terror crisis is highly irresponsible. Obama is even releasing al-Qaida terrorists from Yemen, where the French terrorists are said to have trained. 

It's almost as if this president wants to see America attacked again.

Nearly 25% of the terrorists previously released have gone right back to attacking us. In fact, the Obama administration is scrambling right now to track down an al-Qaida terrorist released from Gitmo years ago, offering a $5 million reward for information on him and placing him on a global terrorist list.

Ibrahim al-Rubaysh was originally released in 2006 and put into a Saudi Arabian "rehabilitation" program. He returned to the battlefield and now serves as a top leader with al-Qaida in Yemen — one of the most dangerous al-Qaida branches.

The case underscores the ongoing risks in repatriating these bloodthirsty Islamic fanatics.

Yet over New Year's, Obama quietly freed five al-Qaida terrorists — all of whom were captured in Pakistan and turned over to the U.S. for detention as suspected al-Qaida militants — to the Muslim nation of Kazakhstan for resettlement.

One of them, Adel al-Hakeemy, was accused of being a military adviser for Osama bin Laden and fought U.S. forces in Afghanistan.

Another is Asim Thabit Abdullah al-Khalaqi, a Yemeni terrorist who fought with al-Qaida "in the final days before the Taliban fell in Afghanistan," according to a Defense Department report.

Another four — Mohammed Zahir, Shawali Khan, Abdul Ghani and Khi Ali Gul — were released over Christmas to Afghanistan. Zahir "was arrested on suspicion of possessing weapons including Stinger missiles and uranium, which detainee's recovered documents indicate was intended for use in a nuclear device," according to his intelligence dossier.

The same files say that Gul, for his part, "planned and executed attacks against U.S. and Coalition forces." Khan was accused of carrying out "terrorist operations," while Ghani "has admitted he was involved in at least one rocket attack on U.S. forces at the Kandahar" airport in 2002, the files say.

Earlier last month, Obama transferred six inmates to Uruguay. In November, he sent five Guantanamo detainees, four of them Yemenis, to Georgia and Slovakia.

If Obama thinks they'll spend their "rehab" time perfecting tabouli recipes, he's more naïve than we thought. They will no doubt reconnect with al-Qaida and reappear on the threat grid.

In his haste to fulfill his ill-advised campaign promise to close Gitmo, Obama is risking national security. Yet where are the hearings on Capitol Hill? Where are the protests?

We are helplessly watching, our elected representatives just standing by, as a rogue commander in chief frees terrorists simply to replace the ones our brave troops have already killed. This is the height of insanity, yet nobody's stopping it.

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