Was it a twelve-step program?
The emergence of a former Guantánamo Bay detainee as the deputy leader of Al Qaeda’s Yemeni branch has underscored the potential complications in carrying out the executive order President Obama signed Thursday that the detention center be shut down within a year.
The militant, Said Ali al-Shihri, is suspected of involvement in a deadly bombing of the United States Embassy in Yemen’s capital, Sana, in September. He was released to Saudi Arabia in 2007 and passed through a Saudi rehabilitation program for former jihadists before resurfacing with Al Qaeda in Yemen.
Abu Nissim rose from the covered tunnel entrance and triumphantly raised a box of Cheer Up chocolate-covered wafers over his head.
“New from the tunnel,” the young Palestinian tunnel digger boasted Thursday as his friends tore open the packages of Egyptian cookies.
One day after the last Israeli soldier left the Gaza Strip after a 26-day military campaign to destabilize the militant Islamist group Hamas and demolish the tunnels used to bring in weapons, Palestinian smugglers  and tunnel diggers  were back in business.
President Obama considers cutting Hamid Kharzai loose. I see some buskashi in his future:
A carcass is soaked in cold water for 24 hours before the game. This is done so the carcass will remain intact and not be torn to pieces as hundreds of chopendoz horsemen independently compete to grab and carry the carcass to the winning circle.
Usually, a the carcass is beheaded, its four legs are cut off from the knee, and its insides emptied before soaking. Sand is sometimes packed inside for extra bulk. Once the carcass has been prepared for the game, it is called a boz in the language of Turkoman. To begin the game, a pit is dug and the boz is placed into it so that the top of the boz is level with the ground. A large circle is drawn around the pit. This circle is called the hallal, which means “circle of justice.” Far to the right of the hallal is a pole, and far to the left is another.
The chopendoz horsemen encircle the hallal containing the boz, and on a given signal, compete to grab it and gallop away around one post and then the other before returning and throwing the boz back into the hallal. The other riders try to prevent that by attacking the rider and trying to steal the boz away. The chopendozwho returns the boz into the hallal is considered the winner. He may have stolen the boz a few meters from the hallal. The chopendoz strive to win at any cost. It is a Machiavellian game, where the end justifies the means and all means are utilized.
There goes a Michael Collins-like Muslim.
“HI! My name is ‘Said Ali al-Shihri’ and I am a Jihadolholic.”
All: “Hi, Said.”
Turki al Faisal tells Pres Obama that “Saudi patience is running out”.
They evidently see an opportunity to issue ultimata. Wonder how that is?
Any man who’d travel a quarter mile underground for a Cheer Up chocolate wafer is likely a man who doesn’t read those comparative nutritional labels, that or he could be a diabetic with a bery, bery low blood sugar level.
looks like the Gitmo meme is just a little more complicated than the people over at the national desk told me that time.
i mean, he was released?
someone owes me an explanation
To Muslims who still believe 9/11 was a Zionist conspiracy to make Muslims look bad, it’s easier to believe O)bama is a Muslim apostate than that a man with “Hussein” as his middle name was brought up as a Christian from childhood.
This, like all the other fantastical things many people over there believe, is going to have an effect on U.S. relations in the Middle East.
Sdferr,
I guess the reason is three-fold…
1.) The ruling Saudi house doesn’t have the personal relationship, and it’s concomitant trust and respect, with our new Chimperor that they did with BusHitler…
2.) They sense the inherent weakness of our new Chimperor; the proverbial testing that Joey B. warned the seattle crowd about. I wonder if Joey B. can snark the Saudi royal house into submission..?
3.) They have the impression that our new Chimperor will be sympathetic to the Palestinian cause…Of course, I am shocked, Shocked!, at the notion that they could entertain such a notion! And I simply can’t imagine where they would get it from??? Perhaps from all of his pallin’ around with former PLO types, or Farrakhan, or Wright, or the moral equivalents, uttered over the years by his fellow travelers, between the Palistinians and the South African blacks..???
ZOMG, ISRAELI IS SUCH AN APARTHEID STATE!!1!1!eleventy!1!11!!
Gee, I just can’t understand why they’d think now was a good time for ultimata…
Rats!
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Gird your loins, people.
Well, just as long as these poor, misunderstood legions of the oppressed are out of America’s “gulag†and the “fascistic†grip of the wicked Bushitler, that’s all that matters. After all, it’s a win-win situation: If the released don’t pop up in news stories about decapitated journalists or bombed American diplomats, it’s proof-positive that Chimpy’s the reincarnation of Adolph Hitler. If they do, it’s verification that he’s a bumbling oaf. So where’s the downside for those demanding release?
Turki certainly knows the right notes to pluck for our Worldly leader. Though I’m not sure he should have included that “Holy Jihad” business, that could get a little bit sticky for our new Pres.
That Saudi declaration is 100% boilerplate PR jihadi bullshit salve. The House of Saud cares little for the Palestinians except as they are available to provide cheap labor within the kingdom. If Obama responds to this as a legitimate threat he would be marked a naive fool. I find that unlikely.
Hamas will dance for the cameras to hide the fact that they got their asses well and truly whupped. It will be a bit more difficult to strut around the Gaza strip like Islamic He-Men while much of the population knows that they were cowering in bunkers or hiding behind schools and mosques to launch rockets and mortars.
If Maj. John and/or RTO are lurking about: I remember reading that the Afghans played the above game in the 80’s using captured Russian soldiers and pilots. True or tribal myth?
Old story about movies and buzkashi. Omar Sharif starred in a flick decades ago about love, honor, and buzkashi. The locals were the extras. At one point, the director, wanting some Omar-winning shots, stopped the general action and told the locals to give Omar the goat.
The response was, supposedly, “It Omar wants the goat, Omar can come and get the goat.” No telling how it went after that.
Wait, did you say “RELEASED”? Why kind of incompetent dictator was Bushitler anyway? Who “releases” someone from the HELL ON EARTH GULAG?
I thought we were just hanging them up, slathering them in ghee and waiting for the ravens to devour them alive.
#11 – not that I ever heard. The old muj I talked to had two choices for the Soviets; convert and join us [Ahmad Shah Masood had a bodyguard of such men], or die. Most died.
But it was the simple AK shot and buried in a pit type death. We used to find their bones around Bagram when the winter thawed.
Greetings:
Once again, the POW calculus:
1) You don’t ever want to fight anyone twice;
2) Some POWs may have useful information;
3) Capture, relocation and detention of POWs requires the
use of scarce resources.
I’ll do the math.
“But four key figures believed to be challenging Mr Karzai have arrived in Washington for meetings with Obama administration officials this week.”
Now if this were Booooooosh! The headlines would read; “BusHitler installing his puppet in place of the legitimate Afghani leader!!1!1!eleventy‘…
Or something like that…
You can trust Prince Turki, he and Bill Clinton took the same ethics course at Georgetown.
They are ‘rehabbed’ so long as they do not attack the Saudi Kingdom. Do that and i think ‘permanent rehab’ will follow.