Ahmed Ghailani, a terror suspect held since 2004 at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility for his alleged role in the 1998 US embassy bombings that claimed more than 200 lives, arrived in New York this morning for trial.
Ghailani is the first terror suspect to be transferred from the facility to US soil under the Obama administration’s unfunded order to close Guantanamo Bay. Nearly 6 months after issuing the order, the administration has no plan for the closing, no funding for the closing, and no idea what to do with the hundreds of terror suspects currently detained there.
In deference to his most radical left-wing supporters, Obama continues to pursue this misguided and dangerous policy despite public opinion running strongly against closing the facility and even more strongly against bringing the suspects to the US.
According to military prosecutors, after the August 7, 1998, bombings of U.S. embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Ghailani worked for Al Qaeda as a document forger, trainer at a terror camp and bodyguard to bin Laden, according to military prosecutors. He was categorized as a high-value detainee by U.S. authorities after he was captured in Pakistan in 2004 and was transferred to the detention center at the U.S. naval base in Cuba two years later.
Sounds like a real peach.
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