The Obama administration has allowed a fighter in Osama bin Laden’s 55th
Arab Brigade to publish a sob letter in an international media outlet
describing the “humiliating and brutal treatments” he suffers at the
U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay Cuba.
Earlier in the year the administration let the mastermind of 9/11, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), dispatch propaganda
from his Guantanamo jail cell, undoubtedly aiding and abetting more
terrorism. That was disgraceful enough; allowing the Al Qaeda operative,
an enemy combatant who’s admitted being the architect of the worst
terrorist attack on U.S. soil, to issue a manifesto from his military
prison cell. Besides boasting of waging jihad against the U.S., KSM’s Pentagon file confirms he’s a senior Al Qaeda recruiter, financier and operational planner for the group’s global terrorist network.
This month another Islamic jihadist, Moath al-Alwi, was allowed to
publish his propaganda from a Gitmo prison cell. Al-Alwi is a Yemeni
national who served as Osama bin Laden’s bodyguard, according to his Pentagon file. He is a top Al Qaeda operative and a “veteran jihadist and fighter in UBL’s 55th
Arab Brigade who participated in hostilities against the U.S. and
Coalition forced on the front lines and in UBL’s Tora Bora mountain
complex,” the Department of Defense (DOD) assessment says. The file also
includes details of al-Alwi’s elite, hand-to-hand combat training and
lengthy stays at Al Qaeda guest houses in various locations, including
Kandahar.
Not surprisingly, these extensive terrorist credentials and training
aren’t mentioned in al-Alwi’s lengthy letter, which was published
internationally by the Arab news conglomerate Al Jazeera. The headline
reads: “A letter from Guantanamo: Nobody can truly understand how we suffer.”
The piece only describes Al-Alwi as a Yemeni national who has been in
U.S. custody since 2002. It also says that he was “one of the very first
prisoners moved to Guantanamo, where the U.S. military assigned him the
Internment Serial Number 028.”
Whip out the tissue box for the letter’s introduction, which reveals
that Al-Alwi and his fellow terrorists are “trapped behind the walls of
Guantanamo.” Al-Alwi says he wrote the letter “between bouts of violent
vomiting” and sharp stomach pains caused by a morning force-feeding
session. He describes being force fed and trashes the colonel in charge
of the military detention facility for confiscating prisoners’ legal
papers and Qurans and for instituting “humiliating groin searches.”
Al-Alwi also whines about having a special mattress and pillows to
alleviate back pain, an electric razor and a bar of soap confiscated
over his hunger strike.
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