As Twitchy reported this week, Congress approved an amendment to its defense appropriations bill barring the administration from spending any money to relocate prisoners currently housed at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba, even as President Obama’s election year efforts to close the facility and relocate prisoners to stateside prisons seemed to be running out of steam and support.
Today, Fox News reported that Jihad Ahmed Mustafa Dhiab, a Syrian national released to Uruguay’s custody in 2014 along with five other prisoners, has gone missing. Law enforcement is conducting a search and believes Dhiab might have entered Brazil. Or not.
Former Guantanamo prisoner vanishes in South America, prompting searchhttps://t.co/LAjKElDSXo pic.twitter.com/GkcKAUulIg
— Fox News (@FoxNews) June 18, 2016
We had him, we let him go and now we are searching for him again? Begs the question, why let him go in the first place? Ridiculous
— PCisForTheWeak (@AntiPC1) June 18, 2016
Coming Soon To Our Southern Border: https://t.co/dOIEycRMVw @FoxNews
— Mary Forbes ??✝️ (@MaryForbes14) June 18, 2016
The Washington Post recently reported that at least a half-dozen Americans are believed to have been killed in attacks perpetrated by former prisoners who were released from Guantanamo to the custody of foreign countries and returned to doing what they do best.
https://twitter.com/NobleLemieux/status/744260584087109632
https://twitter.com/sharpNpointy/status/744271637080604673
Check the Mexican border-it's wide open…
— Jim Kirkpatrick (@JtheK_) June 18, 2016
Look in Texas or AZ because he'll be coming across our border somewhere, no doubt.
— Robin Ball (@rolltideRobin) June 18, 2016
Should find him in one of our night clubs in about 3 months.
— OICU812 (@eric_engstrand) June 18, 2016
https://twitter.com/boomersoonertwt/status/744265141202542592
https://twitter.com/thedavid70/status/744261511892262913