Posted by
Always To The Right on Saturday, June 13, 2009 2:44:57 PM
Yesterday, the Obama administration announced that it had released
Ahmed Zuhair from Guanatanamo Bay’s prison and transferred him to Saudi
Arabia’s terrorist rehabilitation program. The Los Angeles Times
informs its readers why exactly we held Zuhair at Gitmo for as long as
we did. Zuhair was involved in the murder of an American working for
the UN in Bosnia in 1995
There was a time in American history where the murder of US citizen,
and especially a diplomat for the US or UN, would mean a relentless
search and doom for the perpetrators. Apparently, those days have long
since disappeared, perhaps about the time the US repeatedly offered its
hospitality to Yasser Arafat, also implicated in the murder of an
American diplomat in the 1970s. Now, even when we have one in custody,
we release them. Great deterrent; I wonder how the diplomatic corps
feels about this development.
Zuhair wasn’t just a random Afghani or Saudi picked up by accident.
By his own admission, he participated in the bombing of the USS Cole,
and the Bosnians want him for a terrorist attack there, apart from his
involvement in the murder of William Jefferson. Why not give him to
the Bosnians instead, even if we were inclined to release him at all?
The Obama administration has all but surrendered to al-Qaeda with
these releases. If the murderer of an American UN worker and a
participant in the USS Cole bombing can get set free, then who would
Obama keep in custody? The administration is rapidly making membership
in al-Qaeda and participation in terrorism against the US a no-risk
proposition. (via Thomas Joscelyn, whose post should be read in full)