Surprise: Released Gitmo Detainee Now an Al Qaeda Leader in Yemen
Yemen, you may recall, is a glittering Smart Power success story according to our president — whose fixation with emptying and closing the Guantanamo Bay terrorist detention facility has placed political posturing above national security prudence. The latest, via Thomas Joscelyn’s Long War Journal:
Qosi was a loyalist and personal associate of Osama Bin Laden, and we cut him loose in 2012 as part of a plea deal. After his release to his native Sudan, Qosi traveled to Yemen, where he enlisted as a leader of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Penninsula (AQAP), one of the terrorist group’s most active and malignant strains. Who could have seen this coming?
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