Despite the fact that the Christmas plot to blow up Northwest Airlines Flight 253 was from former detainees released from Gitmo, he is still intent on closing the prison.
From the BBC (& video below).
US President Barack Obama has said a Yemen-linked plot to bomb an airliner will not prevent the closure of the US prison at Guantanamo Bay.Excuse me? Gitmo was the rationale for formation of al-Queda in the Arab Peninsula? Did this empty suit Obama ever hear of the al-Queda bombing of the USS Cole, in Yemen, in 2000? That was before George W. Bush's Presidency, 9/11 and the use of Gitmo as a detention facility.
The US has suspended the repatriation of Yemeni prisoners held there in the wake of the plot, claimed by a Yemen-based al-Qaeda offshoot.
Nearly half of those remaining at the detention centre at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are from Yemen.
"...It was always our intent to transfer detainees to other countries only under conditions that provide assurances that our security is being protected," Mr Obama said on Tuesday, during a briefing on security reviews ordered after the airliner plot.
"With respect to Yemen in particular, there's an ongoing security situation which we have been confronting for some time, along with our Yemeni partner."
But Mr Obama said the camp would still be shut, "in a manner that keeps the American people safe and secure".
"Make no mistake, we will close Guantanamo prison, which has damaged our national security interests and become a tremendous recruiting tool for al-Qaeda," he said.
"In fact, that was an explicit rationale for the formation of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula."
Furthermore, you can thank liberals, Democrats, the Alqueda Civil Liberties Union and Eric Holder's former law firm (among others) for giving al-Queda this propaganda to use against America. This treason lobby has been more interested in protecting the terrorists instead of protecting Americans.
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