Fox News is reporting that the leader of the attack on the US consulate in Libya was a detainee at Guantanamo Bay until 2007. Brett Baier and Catherine Herridge just wrapped up her report on this, on Special Report. Some details have already been tweeted out.
According to Fox’s sources, Sufyan Ben Qumu (whose name has also been listed as Sofiane Ibrahim Gammu) may have led the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi. That attack led to the deaths of four Americans including US Ambassador Christopher Stevens.
Qumu/Gammu is a known al Qaeda operative. He first surfaced in Libya as a leader of the rebellion against dictator Muammar Ghaddafi.
Sufyan Ben Qumu, a Libyan army veteran who worked for Osama bin Laden’s holding company in Sudan and later for an al Qaeda-linked charity in Afghanistan, is training many of the city’s rebel recruits.
Both Messrs. Hasady and Ben Qumu were picked up by Pakistani authorities after the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 and were turned over to the U.S. Mr. Hasady was released to Libyan custody two months later. Mr. Ben Qumu spent six years at Guantanamo Bay before he was turned over to Libyan custody in 2007.
They were both released from Libyan prisons in 2008 as part of a reconciliation with Islamists in Libya.
Reconciliation with Islamists is impossible.
During his press briefing earlier today, White House spokesman Jay Carney continued to insist that the attack, which included a military-style assault and rocket propelled grenades, was not pre-planned.
2007? That makes it the Blame-Bush break the Obama Administration was praying for.
As much as I hate the fact that the Bush Admin released any Gitmo detainees whatsoever, in this case at least, the guy was turned over to Libyan authorities for local detainment (revolving door that it later became), i.e., they didn’t just let him out of Gitmo scot-free at the time. And, the left was constantly making noise about all of those poor, poor detainees who just didn’t deserve to be there, oh, no, no! “Told you so” doesn’t even begin to cover this…
Even better, if we sent one of these guys back to their home country, and it was a dictatorship (as Libya was in 2007) with a government that tortured dissidents, then it was a war crime to release these guys to them. Typically it was advocated that we release them unilaterally, but apparently in this instance Bush resisted and sent the guy to Tripoli…
If Al Qaeda was a Christian terrorist army (say, a foreign Westboro-style group gone really really bad and operating overseas ), this man would never have seen the light of day. They would have found something to get him on.
He is free because he is not of the West and thus is looked on with favor by portions of the left, not because he is not dangerous.
Do not release any more. Feed them to the poor, hungry sharks of the Cuban coast.
so then, it’s bushhitler’s fault. The guy is destoying the country nearly 4 years after obama started his fevrish effort to save it.
4 more years of obama may not be enough to reverse all the damage.
To get there will require some SERIOUS taxing and resdistribution, some SERIOUS trampling of the Constitution and the Law, and some SERIOUS apologizing to foreign countries that have been humiliated by the worst country that ever existed.
And mortars. Don’t forget the mortars.
Talk about a dilemna.
The only way that the press can bash Bush and Republicans is by mentioning that an American Ambassador was killed.
If they keep quiet, all they can do is keep coming up with the “Romney gaffe” of the week.
If they publicize this Gitmo detainee was part of the assassination plot, then they have to talk about the assassination plot, and the foreign policy disaster at Obama’s feet.
Decisions, decisions
Remind me again why the left wanted the Gitmo detainee’s let go?
Was Eric Holder the lawyer who worked that out?
I don’t think he had the wattage to accomplish something like that. He managed to impress upon folks this week that he’s dumber than rocks and only dimly aware of his surroundings.
So everyone knew that this was coming, everyone knew that Ambassador Stevens was gay, and the administration just let this happen and we’re supposed to think this was just a coincidence that the only dead ambassador this week was the gay one? Is this changing the polls among gays, or are they as self-destructive as the Jews?
1. These people were released under Bush regime. So Pentagon had purpose on it. Do you think the people like Rumsfeld and Bush would free extremists to fight against them? They are famous for torture, illegal detaining. More likely these are false flag “terrorist” trained by Pentagon’s Guantanamo college. They will work for the interest of US intelligence.
2. How do you know they were not brain washed, or recruited by US military or intelligence? The dirty bomb suspect, Padilla, was once designed to be the witness to prove Iraq related to dirty bomb plot, was recruited in prison. (The plan was soured after my revelation)
3. When people are aware of that 911 was a false flag attack, this becomes a typical model that government manipulate the “terrorists” to squeeze money and power from people. European country has reason to refuse those Gitmo prisoners. They are likely false flag “terrorist” working for Pentagon and US intelligence. They will play the role like Bin Laden.