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Guantanamo Official Resigns As Obama State Dept. Offers $5 Million For Terrorist Released Under George W Bush
Freedom Outpost
The resignation of a top Guantanamo Bay official has increased pressure to close the facility, but just a few days ago, the State Department admitted that a released prisoner has turned out to be a senior al-Qaida leader.
As far back as October, the State Department suspected that Ibrahim al-Rubaysh was a key al-Qaida leader and offered $5 million dollars for any information as his whereabouts of Rubaysh, designating him as a “senior AQAP Sharia official and advisor who provides the justification for the group’s attacks and participates in attack planning.”
But as of December 18, the State Department updated its analysis and declared al-Rubaysh, who was released in 2006, a Specially Designated Global Terrorist via Executive Order 13224. With this order in place, U.S. persons are prohibited from engaging in transactions with al-Rubaysh. Moreover, the order also freezes all of the assets of the senior al-Qaida leader in the United States.
In August 2014, al-Rubaysh made public statements encouraging Muslims to attack the United States.
Despite this information being available as early as October, President Barack Obama hasn’t slowed down attempts to completely empty Guantanamo Bay of all detainees. According to Clifford Sloan, the official who just announced his resignation from Gitmo, the U.S. government has actually been too slow in transferring prisoners out and shuttering the facility. Sloan told the New York Times that he’d only planned to stay at his post for 18 months before leaving.
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