Beltway whispers

From one of our sources inside the Beltway:

Gerald

The Pentagon has said that at least 60, possibly more of the detainees released from Guantanamo have rejoined terrorist cells and have fought once again against Americans.

An internet statement said al-Shihri was 'Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula's second-in-command in Yemen, and his prisoner number at Guantanamo was 372. 'He managed to leave the land of the two shrines (Saudi Arabia) and join his brothers in Al Qaeda'.

He joined the Saudi kingdom's rehabilitation program after his release in November 2007 and got married before leaving for Yemen.

Al-Shihri traveled to Afghanistan two weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, provided money to other fighters and trained in urban warfare at a camp north of Kabul. A travel coordinator for al-Qaida, he also met extremists in Mashad, Iran, and briefing them on how to enter Afghanistan.

Saudi Arabia had asked Yemen to return Al-Shihri and a number of wanted Saudi suspects who fled the kingdom last year, while also claiming none had rejoined al Qaeda.

A Yemeni citizen, Naser Abdel Karim al-Wahishi, AKA Abu Basir, has been appointed head of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian peninsula, after members of Al-Qaeda in Yemen and Saudi Arabia decided to increase coordination between terrorist cells in the region, according to a message posted to Islamist websites. "We are preparing mujahadeen in training camps and they want to go to Gaza."

Al-Shihri, formerly residing in Guantanamo, is his deputy and travel coordinator.

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Gitmo holds very dangerous persons.

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