Al-Qaida Suspect Transferred from Gitmo to Saudi Arabia

9 Mar 2023

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — U.S. military officials said Wednesday they had returned a suspected al-Qaida operative long held at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to his home country, Saudi Arabia.

Ghassan al Sharbi's transfer was the latest aimed at emptying the Guantanamo military prison of those detainees who are no longer facing possible prosecution or who have finished their sentences following the U.S. military's global roundup of extremist suspects after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.

U.S. officials over the years depicted al Sharbi as a loyal al-Qaida supporter and collaborator. Al Sharbi featured in a now famous memo by a Phoenix FBI agent — little heeded at the time — who correctly warned months before the 9/11 attacks that Middle Eastern students appeared to be taking flying lessons for the purpose of attacks involving civil aviation.

The U.S. says al Sharbi fled to Pakistan after the Sept. 11 attacks for training in bomb-making. He was arrested there the next year, allegedly tortured in custody, and sent to Guantanamo.

U.S. military efforts to convict al Sharbi were frustrated as court rulings and congressional directives evolved in the face of challenges to the military tribunal's legal authority to try the Guantanamo detainees.

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https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/03/09/al-qaida-suspect-transferred-gitmo-saudi-arabia.html

Trump: 'I’m an election denier' and so are 'more than 50%'

by Paul Bedard, Washington Secrets Columnist |

March 09, 2023 04:38 PM

Former President Donald Trump said on Thursday that early GOP primary polls are giving him confidence in winning the presidential nomination next year, and he said MAGA anger over the outcome of the 2020 election may be feeding that.

During a media roundtable to discuss his upcoming book, Letters to Trump, he cited a New Hampshire poll released this week that shows him with a huge lead over Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

“On the political front, you see the polls are really crushing it. We're doing great in the polls. We've just got one from New Hampshire where we're like 40-something points up on anybody. Overall, we're way, way up. And a lot of it has taken place over the last two or three weeks,” said Trump.

That poll, from Emerson College Polling, showed Trump with a 41-point lead in the primary and was the latest to suggest that DeSantis may have stalled.

In the discussion, the former president also cited sustained anger from his supporters over the election results in 2020, which he and his MAGA fans have questioned and worse.

Trump bluntly said, “I’m a denier.”

He said, “If you look at the polls, a lot of people think that that election was rigged and stolen. And I happen to be one of them.” He added, “I'm an election denier, and so are, substantially, I would say substantially more than 50% of this country. And I think it's a much higher number than that. You get a lot of election deniers in this country, and they're not happy about what happened.”

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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/trump-im-an-election-denier-and-so-are-more-than-50

Tucker Asks How Jacob Chansley Is Still In Prison

After Video Footage Proves He Committed No Felony

"We know that this was a travesty, The people responsible for it should be punished. Liz Cheney should lose her job today as a professor at the University of Virginia. She knew this. She destroyed a man's life.

6-minutes

https://rumble.com/v2cfsde-tucker-asks-how-jacob-chansley-is-still-in-prison-after-video-footage-prove.html

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