NY Times Publishes Op-Ed Authored by Gitmo Detainee

[Bamadog]

But, of course, the Times knows there is more to the story:

http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo/detainees/43-samir-naji-al-hasan-moqbel

But not much more, if you read all the way through.

If this guy's such a strategic badass, maybe we should have charged him with something by now.

He's not a criminal, but a foreign combatant who declared war on this nation. If it's guilt by association, you shouldn't have associated with a terrorist group. He made a choice and he should pay for that choice. Let him rot there. It's a proven fact that quite a few of the released "harmless" combatants went right back to plotting attacks against the U.S. and its allies. Twenty-seven percent.

http://news.yahoo.com/apnewsbreak-gop-report-questions-detainee-release-050240359.html

Like Benghazi.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2205825/Sufyan-Ben-Qumu-Former-Gitmo-inmate-planned-al-Qaeda-attack-Libyan-consulate.html

I can't believe anyone believes his op-ed. A terrorist wouldn't lie, would they? According to Islamic texts, the answer is an emphatic yes. And reading the DoD's report, he lied several times when questioned.

There are two forms of lying to non-believers that are permitted under certain circumstances, taqiyya and kitman. These circumstances are typically those that advance the cause Islam - in some cases by gaining the trust of non-believers in order to draw out their vulnerability and defeat them.

http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/quran/011-taqiyya.htm

 

[YankeeFan]

The Times once again decides to run an op-ed that's sympathetic to terrorists.

And, that's fine, but they always gloss over who these people really are.

Here's how today's author describes her husband:

I don't understand why I was taken. I assume that the C.I.A. went after my husband because he led an Islamist group that openly opposed the Qaddafi dictatorship. But what did that have to do with me? I come from a small town in Morocco. I was not a political dissident. I'd never been to Libya until the C.I.A. flew me there, and I never meant the United States any harm. I hardly thought about the United States until I was chained to the wall in the C.I.A. black site.

Opinion | I Have a Few Questions for Gina Haspel

Huh. He sounds harmless.

So, who is he really?

He's a "former" Jihadist, a leader of an al-Queda linked militia, who fought alongside bin Laden in Afghanistan.

Abdulhakim Belhadj has shed his combat fatigues for gray sport jackets and crisp white shirts. He has given up his AK-47 rifle for an election ballot. Once a jihadist and revolutionary commander, he is now a globe-trotting Islamist politician and businessman.

"My thinking of that time is not a reflection of the way I think now," the compact 51-year-old said, referring to his fighting days in Libya.

But in a war-divided nation, penetrated by the Islamic State and struggling to forge a new identity, Libyans have not forgotten who Belhadj once was.

They remember that he fought alongside Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. They remember that he led the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), an obscure, al-Qaeda-linked militia that the United States branded a terrorist organization. Belhadj was considered so dangerous that he was arrested and interrogated at a secret CIA rendition site in Asia after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Later, he was tortured in a Libyan prison.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...ory.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.5b605e8f97d0

 

[JimmyHoward33]

And here I thought it was a once a jihadist always a jihadist type of thing

 

[daemon]

The Times once again decides to run an op-ed that's sympathetic to terrorists.

And, that's fine, but they always gloss over who these people really are.

Here's how today's author describes her husband:

I don't understand why I was taken. I assume that the C.I.A. went after my husband because he led an Islamist group that openly opposed the Qaddafi dictatorship. But what did that have to do with me? I come from a small town in Morocco. I was not a political dissident. I'd never been to Libya until the C.I.A. flew me there, and I never meant the United States any harm. I hardly thought about the United States until I was chained to the wall in the C.I.A. black site.

Opinion | I Have a Few Questions for Gina Haspel

Huh. He sounds harmless.

So, who is he really?

He's a "former" Jihadist, a leader of an al-Queda linked militia, who fought alongside bin Laden in Afghanistan.

Abdulhakim Belhadj has shed his combat fatigues for gray sport jackets and crisp white shirts. He has given up his AK-47 rifle for an election ballot. Once a jihadist and revolutionary commander, he is now a globe-trotting Islamist politician and businessman.

"My thinking of that time is not a reflection of the way I think now," the compact 51-year-old said, referring to his fighting days in Libya.

But in a war-divided nation, penetrated by the Islamic State and struggling to forge a new identity, Libyans have not forgotten who Belhadj once was.

They remember that he fought alongside Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. They remember that he led the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), an obscure, al-Qaeda-linked militia that the United States branded a terrorist organization. Belhadj was considered so dangerous that he was arrested and interrogated at a secret CIA rendition site in Asia after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Later, he was tortured in a Libyan prison.

These Libyans were once linked to al-Qaeda. Now they are politicians and businessmen.

You didn't answer her question. What does that have to do with her?