Obama to close Guantanamo Bay

[smacklan]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

Luxury? Well now, I've lived in some low rent places, but...

pfft...I work for my local county government and spend lots of time in our jails here...that is no worse than the Juvenile Detention facility we have although a little older looking. Prison is not meant to be a luxury hotel and they do not house your average "misunderstood" citizens.

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

We didn't really have a choice. Keeping the Bay open was going to be far more damaging in the long run then actually finishing what Bush started.

Ask and you shall receive:

An Internet posting purportedly by Al Qaeda in Yemen says a Saudi national released from Guantanamo in 2008 is now the group's second in command.

The militant, Said Ali al-Shihri, is suspected of being involved in a deadly bombing of the United States Embassy in Yemen's capital, Sana, in September. He was released to Saudi Arabia in 2007 and passed through a Saudi rehabilitation program for former jihadists before resurfacing with Al Qaeda in Yemen, the New York Times reported Friday.
A congresswoman says the reports should not slow the Obama administration's determination to quickly close the Guantanamo facility.
Rep. Jane Harman, a Democrat from California, said that President Obama has to "proceed extremely carefully" in closing the prison.
But she says there is no justification for "disappearing people" in a place outside the reach of U.S. law.
The posting by the Yemeni group — known as "Al Qaeda in Arabian Peninsula" — surfaced on Wednesday on jihadi Web sites that regularly carry Al Qaeda messages.
Al-Shihri says his prisoner number in Guantanamo was 372.
The statement says al-Shihri attended a meeting of Al Qaeda commanders in Yemen during which the top leader gave an interview to a local journalist.
"The lesson here is, whoever receives former Guant?namo detainees needs to keep a close eye on them," an American official told the Times.

Source: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,481849,00.html