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    Re: 'Close Guantanamo'?

    Department memo circulating the draft text observed that, "The statement, by the way contains all three elements Hamdoon wanted" [Document 51].

    On April 5, 1984, Ronald Reagan issued another presidential directive (NSDD 139), emphasizing the U.S. objective of ensuring access to military facilities in the Gulf region, and instructing the director of central intelligence and the secretary of defense to upgrade U.S. intelligence gathering capabilities. It codified U.S. determination to develop plans "to avert an Iraqi collapse." Reagan's directive said that U.S. policy required "unambiguous" condemnation of chemical warfare (without naming Iraq), while including the caveat that the U.S. should "place equal stress on the urgent need to dissuade Iran from continuing the ruthless and inhumane tactics which have characterized recent offensives." The directive does not suggest that "condemning" chemical warfare required any hesitation about or modification of U.S. support for Iraq [Document 53].

    A State Department background paper dated November 16, 1984 said that Iraq had stopped using chemical weapons after a November 1983 demarche from the U.S., but had resumed their use in February 1984. On November 26, 1984, Iraq and the U.S. restored diplomatic relations. Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz, in Washington for the formal resumption of ties, met with Secretary of State George Shultz. When their discussion turned to the Iran-Iraq war, Aziz said that his country was satisfied that "the U.S. analysis of the war's threat to regional stability is 'in agreement in principle' with Iraq's," and expressed thanks for U.S. efforts to cut off international arms sales to Iran. He said that "Iraq's superiority in weaponry" assured Iraq's defense. Shultz, with presumed sardonic intent, "remarked that superior intelligence must also be an important factor in Iraq's defense;" Tariq Aziz had to agree [Document 60].

    Conclusion

    The current Bush administration discusses Iraq in starkly moralistic terms to further its goal of persuading a skeptical world that a preemptive and premeditated attack on Iraq could and should be supported as a "just war." The documents included in this briefing book reflect the realpolitik that determined this country's policies during the years when Iraq was actually employing chemical weapons. Actual rather than rhetorical opposition to such use was evidently not perceived to serve U.S. interests; instead, the Reagan administration did not deviate from its determination that Iraq was to serve as the instrument to prevent an Iranian victory. Chemical warfare was viewed as a potentially embarrassing public relations problem that complicated efforts to provide assistance. The Iraqi government's repressive internal policies, though well known to the U.S. government at the time, did not figure at all in the presidential directives that established U.S. policy toward the Iran-Iraq war. The U.S. was concerned with its ability to project military force in the Middle East, and to keep the oil flowing.

    Most of the information in this briefing book, in its broad outlines, has been available for years. Some of it was recorded in contemporaneous news reports; a few investigative reporters uncovered much more - especially after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. A particular debt is owed to the late representative Henry Gonzales (1916-2000), Democrat of Texas, whose staff extensively investigated U.S. policy toward Iraq during the 1980s and who would not be deterred from making information available to the public [Note 2]. Almost all of the primary documents included in this briefing book were obtained by the National Security Archive through the Freedom of Information Act and were published in 1995 [Note 3].
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    Since the Port Sale thread keeps straying to this topic ::REFERENCE GUIDE TO THE GENEVA CONVENTIONS

    Use the alphabetical index on this site to find out what the Geneva Conventions say about everything from access to grave sites to wounded prisoners of war, fully linked to the original treaties.

    You can also read about the history of the Geneva Conventions, see the full texts of the Conventions, or glance at the author's note written by Maria Trombly.

    http://www.genevaconventions.org/

    International Rules About Soldiers

    The Geneva Conventions and supplementary protocols make a distinction between combatants and civilians. The two groups must be treated differently by the warring sides and, therefore, combatants must be clearly distinguishable from civilians. Although this obligation benefits civilians by making it easier for the warring sides to avoid targeting non-combatants, soldiers also benefit because they become immune from prosecution for acts of war.

    For example, a civilian who shoots a soldier may be liable for murder while a soldier who shoots an enemy soldier and is captured may not be punished.

    In order for the distinction between combatants and civilians to be clear, combatants must wear uniforms and carry their weapons openly during military operations and during preparation for them.

    The other exception are mercenaries, who are specifically excluded from protections. Mercenaries are defined as soldiers who are not nationals of any of the parties to the conflict and are paid more than the local soldiers.

    Combatants who deliberately violate the rules about maintaining a clear separation between combatant and noncombatant groups — and thus endanger the civilian population — are no longer protected by the Geneva Convention.


    International Rules About Civilians

    Both the fourth Geneval Convention and the two Additional Protocols extend protections to civilians during war time.

    Civilians are not to be subject to attack. This includes direct attacks on civilians and indiscriminate attacks against areas in which civilians are present.

    There is to be no destruction of property unless justified by military necessity.
    Individuals or groups must not be deported, regardless of motive.

    Civilians must not be used as hostages.

    Civilians must not be subject to outrages upon personal dignity.

    Civilians must not be tortured, raped or enslaved.

    Civilians must not be subject to collective punishment and reprisals.

    Civilians must not receive differential treatment based on race, religion, nationality, or political allegiance.

    Warring parties must not use or develop biological or chemical weapons and must not allow children under 15 to participate in hostilities or to be recruited into the armed forces.
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    Yesterday, 9/22/2015, stupid freaking Obama, released terrorist, Abdul Rahman Shalabi, 39, from Guantanamo Bay. Abdul, who worked as UBL's body guard, who was number 20 on the backup list of trained pilots who would crash into the world trade centers on 9/11 and who hates America, was deemed """too dangerous""" to release at least, twice.
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    US frees Saudi who waged long hunger strike at Guantanamo
    Abdul Rahman Shalabi was Guantánamo’s longest continuous hunger striker

    His repatriation reduced the detention center population to 114

    He was freed overnight to the custody of Saudi Arabia, which sent a jet to fetch him
    September 22, 2015

    GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, CUBA — The military freed one of Guantánamo’s most determined hunger strikers to Saudi Arabia Tuesday, a former “forever prisoner” brought here the day Camp X-Ray opened as a suspected bodyguard of Osama bin Laden.

    The release, to a Saudi jet on this base’s air strip, left the prison camp population at 114. Now, 52 of the captives are cleared for release to special security agreements with other countries.

    Saudi Abdul Rahman Shalabi, 39, was repatriated less than a week after the United States sent a Moroccan home restrained inside a U.S. military cargo plane. The Saudis, however, have a longstanding special arrangement with its ally the United States to fetch their freed captives, sparing them a ride home in shackles.

    Shalabi was never charged with a crime at Guantánamo. U.S. forces brought him to this U.S. Navy base on Jan. 11, 2002, the day the Bush administration opened prison operations here, and held him as Detainee 42. His transfer leaves seven of those 20 first-day detainees – dubbed “the worst of the worst” – at the prison.

    In January 2010 an Obama administration task force designated him an indefinite detainee – or so-called forever prisoner – considered too dangerous to release but for whom there was insufficient evidence to take to trial. A parole board lifted that designation in June, approving his release in a statement that expressed confidence in the Saudis’ rehabilitation program for Islamic extremists.

    It also said Shalabi was committed to improving his health condition, suggesting he had begun eating voluntarily.


    In arguing for his release, his lawyer told the parole board that the Saudi “is committed to spending his remaining days in peace with his family.”

    Shalabi began his hunger strike in 2005 and was fed a nutritional supplement daily by a tube snaked up his nose and into his stomach, his lawyer told the review board in April. He and another prisoner, who since has been released, maintained the protest longer than any others held at the base. Court records show Shalabi occasionally consumed food but also dropped to as little as 101 pounds.

    A leaked May 2008 prison document considered him a suspected member of bin Laden’s bodyguard detail who had trained on suicide operations –a profile attributed to many in the early days at Guantánamo.

    In arguing for his release in April, his lawyer, Julia Tarver Mason Wood, told the parole board that the Saudi “is committed to spending his remaining days in peace with his family.”

    She added that Shalabi is “a teacher of Islam, which he believes is a religion of peace, not war.

    A Pentagon statement said Defense Secretary Ash Carter filed notified Congress in advance of the release. “The United States coordinated with the government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to ensure this transfer took place consistent with appropriate security and humane treatment measures,” the Pentagon statement said.

    With the transfer, there are now nine Saudi prisoners. One pleaded guilty to war crimes and is awaiting sentencing. Another is an indefinite detainee. Two are awaiting death-penalty trials in the Sept. 11 attacks and U.S. Cole bombings. Four were at one time considered for war crimes trials and have no release status.

    The ninth is former British resident Shaker Aamer, whom the Washington Post predicted Tuesday would get the Secretary of Defense’s approval for transfer “in the coming weeks” along with a long held, long cleared Mauritanian captive.

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    Prisoner Who Was Likely Bin Laden's Bodyguard is Released from Gitmo
    Cortney O'Brien | Sep 23, 2015

    The White House seems determined to make good on its pledge to close Guantanamo Bay within the last 16 months of Obama's presidency. In another head shaking decision, his administration has decided to release a Gitmo prisoner with a dangerous past, including reports he once served as Osama Bin Laden's bodyguard.

    Abdul Rahman Shalabi, a 39-year-old man from Saudi Arabia, was captured by Pakistani military in 2001 and has been serving time in Guantanamo Bay for 13 years. Intelligence analysts have reason to believe he was Bin Laden's bodyguard and was sought to carry out a suicide attack for Al Qaeda. His terror-linked history made him a prime candidate for Gitmo.

    Yet, mind boggingly, he is now being repatriated to Saudi Arabia.

    The Periodic Review board that guided Shalabi to the exit offered the following reasons for their decision, ranging from his terror sins are "in the past" and he has since lived a "quiet" life.

    In a statement explaining its reasoning, the board said Mr. Shalabi had “terrorist-related activities and connections” in the past, but said it was confident that the Saudi government’s rehabilitation program and its ability to monitor former detainees would mitigate the risks. The board also cited the fact that Mr. Shalabi’s nephew, who was repatriated from Guantánamo in President George W. Bush’s second term and went through the Saudi rehabilitation program, has apparently lived quietly ever since.
    Are these good enough reasons to put America's, and the world's, security at risk? Defense officials have suspected former Gitmo prisoners of joining ISIS and returning to lives of terror.

    Shocker.

    Just 114 Gitmo prisoners remain. Does the White House think the world be any safer when they are freed - or are they playing politics?

    http://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortney...gitmo-n2055859
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    UK Guantanamo detainee to be released

    The last British resident being held in Guantanamo Bay is to be returned to the UK, the government has said.

    Shaker Aamer, who has been in the military prison in Cuba since 2002, has never been charged or been on trial.

    Since 2007 the Saudi national has been cleared for release twice by presidents George W Bush and Barack Obama.

    He has permission to live in the UK indefinitely because his wife is a British national. They have four children and live in London.

    "The government has regularly raised Mr Aamer's case with the US authorities and we support President Obama's commitment to closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay," the government spokesman said. "In terms of next steps, we understand that the US government has notified Congress of this decision and once that notice period has been concluded, Mr Aamer will be returned to the UK."

    Mr Aamer was detained in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2001. US authorities allege he had led a unit of Taliban fighters and had met former al-Qaeda leader, Osama Bin Laden. But Mr Aamer has maintained he was in Afghanistan with his family doing charity work.

    Amnesty International UK director Kate Allen said the news was a "huge relief" for Mr Aamer's family and supporters, who have "worked tirelessly" for his release. "Let's not forget that his 13-year ordeal at Guantanamo has been an absolute travesty of justice," she said. "Shaker Aamer is the last UK resident to finally get out of Guantanamo and his return to Britain brings a long, painful chapter to a close."

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    Senate bars transfer of Gitmo to United States

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    Pentagon transfers 5 Gitmo detainees to United Arab Emirates
    Published November 15, 2015

    The Department of Defense announced late Sunday that five detainees at the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba have been released and sent to the United Arab Emirates.

    The transfer of Ali Ahmad Muhammad al-Razihi, Khalid Abd-al-Jabbar Muhammad Uthman al-Qadasi, Adil Said al-Hajj Ubayd al-Busays, Sulayman Awad Bin Uqayl al-Nahdi, and Fahmi Salem Said al-Asani, came after a “comprehensive review” by the interagency Guantanamo Review Task Force, according to the Pentagon.

    The Pentagon said the five Yemeni men were accepted for resettlement in the Persian Gulf nation after U.S. authorities determined they no longer posed a threat.

    The Defense Department said in a statement Sunday that their release brings the Guantanamo prisoner population to 107.

    Each of the five released over the weekend had been held for more than 13 years, and were not charged but were detained as enemy combatants.

    Their release was delayed because the U.S. won't send Guantanamo prisoners to Yemen because of instability there and must find other countries to accept them. The group of five are the first prisoners accepted by the UAE for resettlement.

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    The day following multiple terror attacks around the world ... this administration releses five more terrorist.
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    With just 371 days to go (yes, I’m counting), President Obama is on a rampage to fulfill his ideological agenda and campaign promises before he leaves office. He’s made it clear that closing the Guantánamo Bay prison is one of these — consequences to Americans, be damned.

    And today, we learned that he’s taken one huge step closer to make good on this, as the Pentagon announced the largest single release of detainees yet — and more on the way.

    As the New York Times reports:http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/15/us...sfer.html?_r=0

    The Pentagon on Thursday announced that it had transferred 10 lower-level Yemeni detainees from the Guantánamo Bayprison to Oman. The departure of the unusually large group of prisoners — each of whom spent about 14 years in custody — reduced the prison population to 93, the first time it has been in double digits since the Bush administration began bringing Afghanistan war prisoners to the naval base in January 2002.

    The transfer, which took place on Wednesday, was the largest single resettlement of detainees in the yearslong effort to close the prison in Cuba. The 34 prisoners who are still on a list recommended for transfer if security conditions can be met in the receiving country may be moved by mid-2016, said Lee Wolosky, a State Department official who negotiates transfers.

    “Sustained diplomatic engagement led us to this important milestone,” Mr. Wolosky said. “We are very grateful to our friends and partners in the gulf and elsewhere who have resettled Yemeni detainees, and we expect to be in a position to empty Guantánamo of all detainees who are currently approved for transfer by this summer.”
    Yeah, so was this the same kind of “diplomatic engagement” that led to the capture and humiliation of 10 Navy sailors by our new BFF, Iran?

    Thought so.

    But I guess we should take some comfort in knowing that, surely, our government is only releasing these prisoners who don’t pose any sort of security threat to Americans, right? Like the Muhammad Abd Al Rahman Awn Al-Shamrani, whom we reported earlier this week vowed to “kill Americans” before the Obama administration released him. That’s comforting, right?

    And I’m sure all of the released prisoners will, once free, go out and get jobs and live quiet lives that have nothing to do with what landed them in GITMO in the first place, right? Like former GITMO prisoner Ibrahim Qosi, released in July 2012, who’s now resurfaced as one of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula’s leaders. This former GITMO prisoner is now making himself useful by preaching “individual jihad,” encouraging attacks by individuals and smaller terror cells. Remind you of anything, like perhaps the San Bernardino attacks?

    Yet the president continues to argue that closing down GITMO — releasing these terrorists back into the world, free to continue on their mission — makes us more secure.

    Campaign promises, ideological agenda over the safety of Americans. Truly despicable.


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    They’ve been called the JV team and guys who ride around in the back of trucks. They’ve been dismissed as simple killers and fanatics. And even as I type this, ten more unnamed, unlawful enemy combatant Islamic jihadists have been released, heading to Oman, ending up in Yemen. Yemen being the hotbed of Islamic terrorism and home to al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).

    So far this year — and I could extend this back to last month — it’s been an almost daily occurrence to awake and hear about another Islamic terrorist attack. However, be advised, anyone who dares mention this will be accused of alarmism, stoking anti-Muslim hatred, Islamophobia. And it’s this abject denial and dismissal of this enemy that’s enabled them to enjoy their own “surge” of sorts. Yet, we’re counseled that we can’t “kill” our way out of this. Well, one thing is for certain: we face an enemy that’s hellbent on “killing” its way into this — global conquest.

    A week ago, a U.S. Army Special Forces team was trapped by the Taliban. The Taliban now hold more terrain than even since 2001.

    Yesterday, we awoke to learn about the ISIS-inspired attack in Jakarta, Indonesia. In that attack, some five were killed. A day prior, we learned of the ISIS-inspired attack in Istanbul where nine German tourists were killed. The day before that, there were two ISIS-inspired terrorist attacks in Baghdad and 29 were killed. (And breaking news just this afternoon shows blasts going off in west Africa — targeting a hotel frequented by Westerners — though details are still very preliminary.)

    A fifteen year old boy in Marseilles, France, inspired by ISIS, attacked a Jewish teacher — after all, ISIS did declare that Jews were next. I suppose that means they have all but satiated their barbaric appetite feeding upon the innocent Assyrian and Chaldean Christians, as well as the Yazidis.

    We’ve been shown video of the ISIS bomb-making institute there in their declared caliphate capitol of Raqqa. The former acting CIA drector testified this week of the growth of ISIS and their expanded recruiting, yet we were told during the State of the Union address to dismiss what we’re seeing, what the enemy is stating and what their actions are indicating.

    Here on our shores, we’ve had the biggest Islamic terrorist attack since 9/11, after our government failed and allowed a female jihadist to enter our nation. In San Bernadino, 14 Americans lost their lives, 21 were wounded and countless others have had their lives changed forever. We’ve had the arrests of two former “refugees” in Sacramento and Houston, who were providing support to ISIS; one had even traveled to the region to fight. And FBI Director Comey has classified the attempted assassination of a Philadelphia police officer as a terrorist attack, by a declared Islamic jihadist who pledged allegiance to ISIS.

    Ladies and Gents, there is a global Islamic jihadist movement, but we’re being cautioned to not heed the voices of warning. You just have to ask, what if the people of Europe had listened to Churchill instead of believing the “hope and change” of Chamberlain? A nation does not “avoid” war or confrontation by embracing the policies of denial, appeasement and acquiescence. What that ends up producing are videos of your Sailors kneeling on their Riverine assault boats, hands over their heads, and weapons mounted, silent.

    The desire of wolves is to feast upon the sheep. And sheep should never be placed in position of leadership over guard dogs. The movie “13 Hours,” which will be released today, evidences what guard dogs do to wolves. It also reminds us what sheep do when wolves attack. Yes, I’ll be going to the movie this evening; my daughters already attended the world premiere at AT&T Stadium. I’ve read the book, twice.

    Everything I’ve mentioned in this writing, save the San Bernadino terrorist attack, has happened in the first two weeks of 2016. There are fifty more to go. What will this year look like? I pray it’s not reflective of these first two weeks. But after the SOTU address and knowing our current administration expressed gratitude to Iran for their exploiting our Sailors –with sheep leading from behind — I have little “hope.”

    Let us endeavor as a nation to NEVER find ourselves in this position again

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jolie Rouge View Post
    With just 371 days to go (yes, I’m counting), President Obama is on a rampage to fulfill his ideological agenda and campaign promises before he leaves office. He’s made it clear that closing the Guantánamo Bay prison is one of these — consequences to Americans, be damned.

    And today, we learned that he’s taken one huge step closer to make good on this, as the Pentagon announced the largest single release of detainees yet — and more on the way.

    As the New York Times reports:http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/15/us...sfer.html?_r=0

    The Pentagon on Thursday announced that it had transferred 10 lower-level Yemeni detainees from the Guantánamo Bayprison to Oman. The departure of the unusually large group of prisoners — each of whom spent about 14 years in custody — reduced the prison population to 93, the first time it has been in double digits since the Bush administration began bringing Afghanistan war prisoners to the naval base in January 2002.

    The transfer, which took place on Wednesday, was the largest single resettlement of detainees in the yearslong effort to close the prison in Cuba. The 34 prisoners who are still on a list recommended for transfer if security conditions can be met in the receiving country may be moved by mid-2016, said Lee Wolosky, a State Department official who negotiates transfers.

    “Sustained diplomatic engagement led us to this important milestone,” Mr. Wolosky said. “We are very grateful to our friends and partners in the gulf and elsewhere who have resettled Yemeni detainees, and we expect to be in a position to empty Guantánamo of all detainees who are currently approved for transfer by this summer.”
    Yeah, so was this the same kind of “diplomatic engagement” that led to the capture and humiliation of 10 Navy sailors by our new BFF, Iran?

    Thought so.

    But I guess we should take some comfort in knowing that, surely, our government is only releasing these prisoners who don’t pose any sort of security threat to Americans, right? Like the Muhammad Abd Al Rahman Awn Al-Shamrani, whom we reported earlier this week vowed to “kill Americans” before the Obama administration released him. That’s comforting, right?

    And I’m sure all of the released prisoners will, once free, go out and get jobs and live quiet lives that have nothing to do with what landed them in GITMO in the first place, right? Like former GITMO prisoner Ibrahim Qosi, released in July 2012, who’s now resurfaced as one of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula’s leaders. This former GITMO prisoner is now making himself useful by preaching “individual jihad,” encouraging attacks by individuals and smaller terror cells. Remind you of anything, like perhaps the San Bernardino attacks?

    Yet the president continues to argue that closing down GITMO — releasing these terrorists back into the world, free to continue on their mission — makes us more secure.

    Campaign promises, ideological agenda over the safety of Americans. Truly despicable.


    http://www.allenbwest.com/2016/01/br...closing-gitmo/
    A Guantanamo Bay detainee that was released by President Obama in 2012 is now the face of Al Qaeda.

    Last December, al Qosi began appearing in al Qaeda propaganda videos denouncing the Saudi's and advocating for jihadists to go to Yemen and join Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).

    Al Qosi had joined al Qaeda in 1990, and by 1994 was part of Osama Bin Laden’s personal security.

    As reported by Daily Mail, Ibrahim al Qosi was sent to Gitmo in December 2001 after being captured in Afghanistan. He was offered a plea deal that ultimately led to his release from Gitmo after pleading guilty to conspiracy and providing material support to al Qaeda.

    In July 2012, al Qosi was released from Gitmo and returned to his native Sudan where he was to live in “peace, quiet and freedom.”

    Despite Obama’s campaign promises and best efforts, Gitmo remains open to this day although with substantially fewer occupants.

    http://mrctv.org/blog/
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