https://twitter.com/fsu1010/status/746040960476274688
In case the Obama administration hasn’t done enough to reassure us of their commitment to keeping us safe …
Alleged bin Laden bodyguard released from Guantanamo after 14 years, allowed to go free. https://t.co/Xf924iUt1I pic.twitter.com/JjOjfJkJOz
— NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (@NBCNightlyNews) June 23, 2016
More from NBC News:
Abdel Malik Ahmed Abdel Wahab al-Rahabi had been held at the U.S. naval base on Cuba for 14 years but never charged with a crime. A U.S. review board found in 2014 that the Yemeni national was no longer a threat to the nation and recommended he be transferred.
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According to Pentagon documents, al-Rahabi was detained by Pakistani forces in Dec. 2001 and transferred to Guantanamo the next month on suspicion of being a former bodyguard for bin Laden. The documents also suggest he may have been related by marriage to the late al Qaeda founder.
The files allege al-Rahabi also received training for a planned mission to hijack airplanes in southeast Asia in an attack that was meant to be coordinated with 9/11 but never happened.
The timing couldn’t possibly be better:
One week after worst terror attack in 15 years on homeland. https://t.co/xyirsNTGRO
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) June 23, 2016
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Message to radical Islamists – Attack us here and we'll not only work to restrict our own rights, we'll let more of you guys go.
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) June 23, 2016
Ugh.
https://twitter.com/laur862098511/status/746048857709043712
thanks, Obama
— eliminoP (@eliminoP) June 23, 2016
https://twitter.com/JammieWF/status/746048376152592384
Thanks Obama.
— Robert Neville ❌ (@OmegaMan58) June 23, 2016
Hmmmm, I wonder how long before we see him again? ??? Thanks again @POTUS
— FeedJake14 (@FeedJake14) June 23, 2016
https://twitter.com/jrut2147/status/746041888172552192
Well, hopefully they’re at least sending him on his way with plenty of compassion, unity, and love.
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