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Defend America on Monday, March 22, 2010 10:37:33 PM
Judge Orders Notorious Terrorist Freed from Gitmo
A federal judge says 9/11 al Qaeda recruiter should be freed.
March 22, 2010 7:22 PM
According to the
Wall Street Journal, a district judge
has ordered Mohamedou Slahi – a known al Qaeda recruiter who worked for Osama bin Laden – freed from Guantanamo. The
Journal’s
account does not explain the judge’s reasoning and the decision was not
immediately available online. But the decision is inexplicable in light
of Slahi’s notorious track record. There is no doubt that Mohamedou
Slahi is one of the worst terrorists held at Gitmo. (See
here for a previous summary of Slahi’s dossier.)
Recruiter for the September 11 attacks
Among
Slahi's most notorious recruits were four of the September 11
conspirators, all of whom were members of the infamous Hamburg cell.
Slahi’s role in recruiting the Hamburg cell for al Qaeda is explained
on pages 165 and 166 of the 9/11 Commission’s final report. Slahi
arranged for Ramzi Binalshibh, al Qaeda's point man for the 9/11
operation, and three of his cohorts to travel from Germany to
Afghanistan so that they could train in al Qaeda's camps and swear
allegiance to Osama bin Laden. Binalshibh's three friends were:
Mohammed Atta, Marwan al Shehhi, and Ziad Jarrah--the suicide pilots of
American Airlines Flight 11, United Airlines Flight 175, and United
Airlines Flight 93, respectively.
Along with Binalshibh,
Shehhi and Jarrah met with Slahi in late 1999. The three originally
wanted to travel to Chechnya to fight, but Slahi convinced them to
travel to Afghanistan for training first instead. The 9/11 Commission
explained:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/judge-frees-jihadist-gitmo