Al Qaeda Gitmo alum, leads group in Yemen

Reuters/Arab News:

A fugitive Saudi Arabian man, who was once detained at the US military prison at Guantanamo, was named as a senior member of Al Qaeda's Yemen wing, according to a tape by the group shown on al Arabiya television on Friday.

The tape also confirmed the deaths of three leaders killed in December and January during Yemeni air raids, the pan Arab broadcaster said.

Among those killed were Abdullah al Muhdar, the leader of Al-Qaeda in Yemen's Shabwa province, Mohammed Amir al Awlaki, and Mohammed Saleh al Kazimi.

Othman Ahmed Al-Ghamdi, the 31-year-old man named as a leading Al Qaeda operative on Friday, had been added to a list of 85 most wanted people by Saudi Arabia 15 months ago, Al-Arabiya said.

He spent four years in Guantanamo prison after he was captured in Afghanistan. He was released in 2006.

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Clearly this guy never should have been released and it raises serious questions about Obama's attempt to release more of the terrorist being held at Gitmo. I suspect that he was one who went through the Saudi detox program, which clearly did not work in his case. People like this need to be held at Gitmo until the end of the war.

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