The plan to repatriate Gitmo detainees to Yemen
It's beginning to look like Yemen is the new Afghanistan - a failed Muslim state turned into an al Qaeda safe haven. The Christmas Day bombing plot was hatched there. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton declared yesterday that instability in Yemen poses a "global threat." The United States is conducting air strikes against jihadist militants. In a recent Fox News online poll, 60 percent of respondents agreed that this country should "organize an offensive in Yemen in response to Al Qaeda threats." Help is on the way from America, but unfortunately they are terrorist reinforcements.
Over the weekend, President Obama's top counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, reiterated the administration's intention to continue sending Guantanamo detainees back to Yemen. About a third of the remaining detainees at the U.S. military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are Yemeni, the largest single national group being held.
Six Yemeni detainees were returned in December, and "several of those detainees were put into Yemeni custody right away," Mr. Brennan said.
But according to a report from Yemen monitored by the BBC, the freed fighters "arrived in Yemen in order to arrange for the release procedures, question them and make them sign the required pledges that they will not join Al Qaeda after they are released." Call us cynical, but we doubt that "taking the pledge" is going to stop these men from finding ways to continue the jihad. More>>
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