Two Former Gitmo Prisoners Appear In Al-Qaeda Video

Two prisoners released from Guantanamo Bay have appeared in a video posted on a jihadist website. The AFP reports that "one of the two former inmates, a Saudi man identified as Abu Sufyan al-Azdi al-Shahri, or prisoner number 372, has been elevated to the senior ranks of Al-Qaeda in Yemen." Further, "three other men appear in the video, including Abu al-Hareth Muhammad al-Oufi, identified as an Al-Qaeda field commander," a man who was formerly known as prisoner No. 333. "By Allah, imprisonment only increased our persistence in our principles for which we went out, did jihad for, and were imprisoned for," al-Shihri was quoted as saying.

Obama has signed an executive order that Gitmo should be closed within one year. Obama needs to explain immediately what he intends to do with the prisoners. If he intends to free them, or to give them such rights to the point that keeping them imprisoned would be impossible, then he will have blood on his hands. He will be allowing jihadists to return to their holy war. If this is not what he intends to do, then he needs to explain clearly to the American people exactly what policy he plans on implementing.

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