Will the Cole Familes Ever Recieve Justice?

We received a copy of the Executive Order that Obama signed suspending the trials of the Cole bombers, and all the other trials of the terrorists as well that are at Guantanamo Prison. For our family we are reliving nightmare all over again. We went through this with the Yemeni Regime when President Saleh freed all the terrorists that had helped to attack the Cole. Those that were not freed escaped from prison. Two of them went on to fight our soldiers in Iraq.

We had pleaded with Bush not to let the Yemeni's to conduct the trials. That Saleh would only free them. Bush told us that they would receive justice, and not to worry. Any idiot who had been following the Yemeni Regime new that our son's killers would be free, and that the trial would be a mockery of justice. And it was. But went sent letters after letters to our elected representatives, and senators to help us, all to no avail. Its my hope that President Obama will let the victims familes have their day in court, and not place these terrorists in a civilain court. Keep the system as it is. Please!

And now our son's killers are walking around Yemen as free men. And or fighting for Al-Qaeda again. To be fair we also had wrote President Clinton and asked him to not let the Yemenis have custody of any of the bombers that were caught. He did not listen as well. And now Obama's decision has started the nightmare all over again. When we were so close to obtaining some justice after all these years. Its as if our government will not be happy until all of our sons killers have been freed one way or another.

I have no anger at the Military Commission. They have worked extremely hard against many obstacles. And we are proud that they are representing our family. We were fortunate to see at least one terrorist help accountable for his part in the Cole attack. He had made a video glorifying the attack on the USS Cole, and attacks on Israelis. It was my pleasure to testify at Ali al-Bahlul's trail at Gitmo. He received life in prison for making that horrible propaganda and recruiting film which celebrated nothing but death and the destruction of Americans and Israelis.

My only hope is that now we the Cole families are no longer alone like we were before. And as a small group of 17 families the government knew that they could ignore us for the most part. But its going to be difficult to ignore the thousands of families and their friends that make up the 9/11 victims.

We also have Senator Cornyn and his staff who are working at getting us some answers and justice after 8 long years. We have been told that there will be a Judiciary Hearing this year on the issues that I requested. Thank-You Senator Cornyn and staff! I just hope that the democrats will not figure out a way to stop it. Our Representative at the time was Juan Garcia who helped us tremendously too. A big thanks to him and his staff as well!

We also have many privates citizens, bloggers, and some Yemenis here in America, and some Yemenis in Yemen too who are helping us with our battle to obtain the long overdue justice for our son and his 16 mates. Thank-you all! Your support has kept us going.

Freed Gitmo Terrorist Bombs US Embassy

Former Guantanamo terrorists helps to murder 10 people after his release from Guantanamo prison. I say twelve because six of those killed in the attack were terrorists. There deaths are a blessing and do not count. But the total body count was 16 if you count the terrorists. Either way the ACLU and their radical liberals supporters got their wish when Said Ali al–Shihri was freed from Gitmo to commit murder less than 10 months after he was released.

After al-Shihri was returned to Saudi Arabia he was checked in to a Jihad rehabilitation program designed to make terrorists forgo their evil and murderous ways, and to become good citizens who respect the laws and human life. Its obvious that al-Shaihri was not listening and or did not receive enough group counseling. After his released he sneaked out of Saudi Arabia and went to Happy Yemen which is a haven for Jihadists. Where he took part in the bombing of the US Embassy last September, and became Al-Qaeda’s number two top dog of the Al-Qaeda branch in Yemen.

Its more than apparent now that al-Shihri was not telling the truth when he told his captors in Gitmo that he was only looking to purchase carpets for his store, and to do relief work. And that he has had a history in working for Al-Qaeda. They don’t just make some brand new guy a Chief.
Their people have to demonstrate that they are good at following orders, and good at what they do.

Al-Shihri according to the Pentagon is not the first terrorist freed from Gitmo to return back to his evil ways. According to them at least a dozen Gitmo terrorists have returned back to Al-Qaeda. But unfortunately the ACLU and the liberals do not believe them. And why would they? That would mean that the ACLU and their supporters would no longer be able to clamor for the release of these vermin.

I hope that this latest and tragic news that a former terrorist of Gitmo is now the second in charge of Al-Qaeda, and helped to murder innocent people will help to persuade Obama that maybe, just maybe these guys do not need to be released.

But then again my other fear is that Obama will release these fanatics back to Yemen. Where President Saleh will welcome them with open arms. Saleh’s regime has released terrorists that have murdered people before back onto the street. Including the murders of our son and his 16 mates. I also wonder how long it will be before we hear a similar story about Bin ladens driver who received an extremely light sentence at Gitmo last year and was then turned over to the Yemeni regime. Where he was released.

But in the end I reserve my anger, disgust and contempt for the ACLU, and their rabid followers who go out of their way to help our enemies to escape justice for their crimes against their own fellow citizens, and other innocent people of different nations. Their actions go way beyond helping individuals to receive a fair and impartial trial. The ACLU and the radical liberals who demanded that this terrorist be release and others like him are partly responsible for all the deaths, pain and suffering that these terrorists have committed, and will commit.

More Evidence That 10/12 and 9/11 Could Have Been Prevented

What can one say about the following information which demonstrates that again that both the attack on the USS Cole and 9/11 could have been prevented. We were given many excuses at the time as to why the HUB in Yemen did not pick up the warnings about the pending attack on the Cole. Yet now with all the new information that is being released we find out just the opposite. (Its my understanding that many of the relesased documents have words and whole sentences that have been redacted.) That the National Security Agency had struck a gold mine by listening in to phone calls between Bin Laden and his top lieutenants at a terrorist HUB(safehouse) in the Capital city of Sana in Yemen.

The terrorists Hub was a home which belonged to Mohammed al-Hada whose extended family memeber was Al-Midhdar, the hijacker of Flight 77.The NSA listened in for over two to three years to the terrorists chatter on their phones. Over ten thousand pages of transcripts were recorded in that time. Al-Hada the owner of the house was later killed while running from the Yemeni police. After 10/12 and 9/11 of course.

It was only after 9/11 and a congressional inquiry that the FBI went back and started checking out all those phone calls, and found out all this information. Who had it before? Why was it not used? Why even bother to listen in on the terrorist plans if they were not going to use the information? The whole affair is still shrouded in secrecy. No doubt to protect politicians and other government officials and employees from having their careers damaged, and or ruined.
According to a US Investigator the number at the HUB was used to "put everything together before the Cole bombing." Its also reported that is how the FBI found out about the first attack on a Navy ship in the Yemen Harbor in January of 2000. That attack failed because the terrorist al-Nashiri(the terrorist that later helped to attack the USS Cole and the Liberals and ACLU want freed) overloaded the boat to be used in the attack and began to sink. The navy ship to be attacked was the USS Sullivan. That was nine months before the attack on the USS Cole.

Why was the USS Cole not warned? Were they deemed expendable? That to blow the whistle would have alerted Al-Qaeda that the safehouse was no longer safe? But then why was the 9/11 attack not discovered? And revealed? Why was it revealed only later after the Cole attack about the aborted attack on the USS Sullivan? If they had information on the Sullivan why not the Cole? (that one always puzzled me. Until now at least)The questions are many. And the answers are few if any.

This latest information only makes for more questions that our government needs to answer. The families of the USS Cole attack and the 9/11 families all deserve an answer as to how such a failure could happen and who is responsible. A dirty word these days in politics. Just mention the word responsibility in a room full of politicans and the room is empty before you can blink. No more excuses and or lies please. Its going to take a few good and decent politicans to bring out the long overdu truth on all of this.
--Posted By Gary to Terrorism: Politicians and Victims at 1/19/2009 09:33:00 PM

ACLU and Liberals Want the Cole Bomber Freed

We knew that it was only a matter of time before the ACLU brought suit to drop the charges against Al-Nashiri who helped to plan and organize the attack on the USS Cole, and other terrorists who have murdered their fellow citizens. No surprise at all. But the ACLU's and their supporters continued support of these murderers is beyond belief. Its sheer insanity on their part. And their behavior is disgusting to any individual who really respects the sanctity of human life.

When it comes to trampling all over reason, and the rights of the victims and their families the ACLU is first line. I do not disagree with their right as Americans to speak their beliefs, no matter how absurd and insane those beliefs may be. Or that everyone is entitled to a fair trial, and that even the accused have rights. That part is all true. Our own son died so they could have these rights, just like thousands of other Americans that have died before him to ensure that we could all speak as we think, and to have other freedoms that other people in different countries only dream about. But the ACLU and liberals have taken the laws that were made to protect victims of crime and manipulate those laws to protect the killers who committed those crimes against the victims in the first place. And all the while they tell us that its the right thing to do. Right for who? The criminal, the terrorist, the rapist, and or the pervert?

Most decent folks would not even want their name associated with the ACLU. Most Americans can see through all their smooth and insincere talk. All one has to do is look at their past behaviors. For years they were only supported by the lunatic fringe of our society. But now that segment has grown and become much more vocal, active and hostile to anything that is considered to be a traditional way of American Life. Even if their actions lead to the release of terrorists and criminals. The ACLU and their supporters remind me of the NAZI Party in its early stages. Where they would take laws that were meant to be used for the protection of the society, and then by using deceit, duplicity, and manipulation would use those laws to achieve their own twisted and sick goals. And it worked beyond the Nazi's wildest dreams too. When criminals who were on trial for burning Jewish stores, beating Jews, and or killing Jews the Nazi's learned how to manipulate the courts and the German government to have the criminals freed. Whenever Christians and or concerned citizens would have rallies in the streets to oppose the Nazi's in a peaceful matter, the Nazi's would thrown rocks, and bottles and or attack them. The Nazi's would also boo and shout speakers off the stage who disagreed with them. Sounds kinda like the behavior that our own liberals demonstrate, does it not? And the liberals like the Nazi's know the importance of controlling the mainstream press to achieve their goals.

Of course they are claiming that Al-Nashiri was supposedly tortured, and there by needs to be released without a trial. What they conveniently forget is that the supposed torture is secondary to the primary reason he is in prison. He helped to murder innocent people. We are seeing more and more criminals go free every day in our civilian legal system not because the criminal was not guilty of the crime, but because a mistake was made in how him and or his case was handled. And that's exactly what they want now with the terrorists. They could care less about the real victims, and or if the terrorists kills again. They only care about their political goals, making Bush and the republicans/conservatives look bad. And making their own warped beliefs into laws.

This latest ACLU demand to have the terrorist go free is an insult to every man and woman who has died for this country, an insult to all the military, the FBI, the CIA, the police, anyone else who laid their lives on the lines to capture these rabid fanatics. Its also an insult to any person who really knows the true value of human life, and knows that without laws to protect us all from the people that the ACLU want free, that we and our society are doomed.
--Posted By Gary to Terrorism: Politicians and Victims at 1/17/2009 02:25:00 PM

Judge Refuses to Let the Trials at Gitmo Move Forward

Susan Crawford the judge who is responsible for deciding whether or not to bring charges against the terrorists at Gitmo refused to letMohammed al-Qahtani's trial go forward. Even though she admits that he is a very dangerous man.
Military prosecutors have stated that they would refile charges against Qahtani. But the good judge stated that the terrorist has recanted his previous confession. So what if he has recanted. How many convicts don't say that they are innocent even when there is a ton of evidence against them. Regardless she said that she will not let the prosecution go forward.
Either way its going to be an uphill battle for the Military Commission to get any of these guys convicted. Now that the lunatics are running the asylum things will get even more crazier if that's possible. Which it is.
What gives me hope is one article I read inNewsweek A liberal magazine that did a half decent article on this delima.And actually said something good about Bush! It appears that the more rational liberals have realized that Obama will not be able to satisfy all the insane and ludicrous demand concerning the closing and freeing of the terrorists. That these terrorists are fact in dangerous, some have killed American citizens and will kill again if given the chance. That obama will have to anger some of his radical supporters by figuring out just what to do with these brutal killers. One option, which I think he will use if he can,will be to release the terrorists to a country that promises to keep them locked away. And then if that host nation turns around and releases them, its not Obama's problem anymore. President Bush did exactly that same thing and it worked great. He was able to proclaim a great victory for the war on terror. Meanwhile the terrorists were released and pardoned in Yemen.
Either way Obama will have to do something. You know that he has to realize that we can be attacked again. And more Americans killed. If that happens his anti-terrorist policies will be front and center. And more importantly his political career could suffer big time. And no politician is going to risk their career.
It would be nice if that Judge would realize that two wrongs don't make a right. Was it wrong if that terrorist was tortured needlessly? Yes. But would it not be wrong just to release him. Yes. The fact remains that he planned to kill Americans, and was a member of Al-Qaead who had sworn allegiance to Bin Laden, and took an oath to kill Americans. And traveled all the way to America to do it. But that's the problem with liberals, they will burn down the village to save it. There is no middle ground in their book.
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We Stand With Israel

Its our family's hope that Israel will win this new battle in the on-going war against Hamas in Palestine. Will they stop short of victory again? Will they continue to make more concessions to the terrorists? Only to have every concession that they have made used against them by Hamas and Hezbolla. Granted most of these concessions were pushed upon the Israelis by President Carter, Clinton and Bush. But also Israel must have know that they needed to make the concessions to show the world that no matter what they did, the terrorists would still kill their people.

Will it be as the Israels Defense Minister stated, "war to the bitter end".It had to happen sooner or later. Common sense dictates that no rational individual can negotiate with murderers. Especially when those terrorists have repeatedly stated over and over how they will not stop till Israel is destroyed. Would our presidents and politicians allow rockets to be fired from Mexico into Texas on a daily basis? I would hope not. With as weak willed as some of our leaders have become it would not surprise me at all though to be honest. Think Harry Reid, Clinton, Pelosi, ets...

But then again I suspect that many of our leaders are jumping for joy that Israel is is taking action against these terrorists. I hope that our leaders will at least give them verbal support. And will Iran let Hezbollah off the leash to attack Israel as well? But more importantly will Israel have the stamina, courage and conviction to stand up against those nations and groups who are already crying out how brutal and barbaric Israels actions are. Yet in reality Israel is only acting in self-defense. Yet unfortunately there will be women and chiildren killed. And why? Because the terrorists will use them for cover as they always do in their attacks. And also the terrorists know that the liberals and Jew haters here in America will use those deaths to beat Israel over the head with. They are already doing it too in the papers, the TV and on the internet. But will the Israeli haters lay the blame on the terrorists. No. And the same with other nations who despise Israel and the democratic values that Israel represents.

And one of those nations is one of American dubious allies President Saleh of Yemen. Saleh was quoted as saying that the Israeli army "must stop its brutal genocide" in Palestine. And this is coming from the man who uses Al-Qaeda to kill his own people who disagree with him, and to advance his own personal agenda. Saleh has also called a Arab summit to discuss Israels recent attacks and how they are depriving the Palestinians of their "human rights".

That was enough to make me howl with laughter! This petty little dictator makes it a habit to throw reporters, and editors into prison on a regular basis. Lets not forget how he has also kept food and water from the segment of people who have rebelled against his tyranny. Yet he is crying foul against Israel. And this is the wacko that both Clinton and Bush supported. One of Saleh's dreams is to have all of the factions in Palestine to unite against Israel. And he has been working hard on that goal to materialize.

And then their is the "What will Obama do?" question. I have to agree with others that is partly why Israel has attacked in the first place. I think they new what he would do. He would probably want Israel to release more terrorists so they could come back and fight them again, and or to give up more land. Maybe the Israelis who have much more experience and practical sense in dealing terrorists know that freeing killers is not conducive to ones own survival. And that by giving up land today will only be more land that your troops have to re-conquer tomorrow. Or land that the terrorists will fire their rockets from, and use to train other terrorists on to kill your citizens from in the future with.

Either way I back Israel for standing up to the real barbarians who want to destroy one of the finest societies that this planet has ever been witness too.

Al-Qaeda Terrorists Rats Out President Saleh of Yemen

Hamza Ali Saleh al Dhayani an Al-Qaeda terrorist's claims that President Saleh of Yemen has repeatedly ordered terror attacks within Yemen. These attacks according to the terrorist are planned with the help of Saleh's Political Security Organization (PLO). Think Gestapo. With this past September attack by Al-Qaeda on the US Embassy being one of those attacks sanctioned by Saleh to garner foreign support from America and other countries in his so called war on terrorism. It would not be the first time that Saleh has used Al-Qaeda to meet his own agenda.

Al-Dhayani is a wanted fugitive for terrorists attacks in Yemen. He gave the interview to Mareb Press after taking several security precautions to aviod being caught. I for one am inclined to believe him for numerous reasons. Its a know fact that Saleh has placed "reformed" Al-Qaeda" members in the PLO, and his government as well.

This only confirms to me what I have already been told by other Yemenis. And Saleh's own behavior in regards to the USS Cole bombers. The 9/11 Commission Report even states that one of the bombers was released from jail after Bin Laden called the government to secure his release before the attack on the Cole. And lets not forget how one of Saleh's government officials gave three of the future bombers of the Cole a written pass to travel freely so as to be able to gather the necessary equipment to carry out the attack. That came out in court, but was hushed up immediately by Saleh's regime. I am still waiting for an answer as to why our government took no action on that issue.

Dhayani also stated that he met some former Guantanamo inmates while doing some time in a Political Prison in Yemen. He claims that conditions are much worse in Yemen prisons than at Gitmo. That the Yemeni PLO uses torture on a routine basis. And I can bet its not no "waterboarding" either. Their torture is the real deal as they say.

The good news about Dhayani ratting Saleh out is that his interview collaborates what many of American and Yemeni citizens, and analysts have know for years. The Dirty Little Secret that Saleh is playing the middle from both ends. And its way past time for our own government to to stop acting like they do not know it. I had FBI agents tell me the same thing off the record of course. Who were just as frustrated as I was that both Clinton and Bush chose to protect Saleh's crooked regime for political purposes.

I would think now that our government would be having serious doubts as to how long they can continue this charade of claiming that President Saleh is one of the "good guys". Historically when a dictatorship is in its last days, that totalitarian state's violent and oppressive behaviors towards its citizens increases as the state loses more power,and control. And anyone watching Yemen from the outside can see where Saleh is becoming more desperate in his attempts at maintaining his power. Our own government should cut its losses with Saleh's regime now to avoid further embarrassment in the world community for supporting a ruthless dictator with the blood of 17 America sailors and Yemeni citizens on his hands.

I can't help but to relate some of the horror stories I have been told by Yemeni's who have escaped from Saleh's regime. How one man was in prison because he openly criticized Saleh, and was tortured. His son was picked up after he left Yemen, and never heard from again. How angry a Yemeni mother was that America tax dollars bought the guns that killed her son. How other Yemenis had loved ones taken away from them by the Saleh's PLO never to return. And yet another individual who was in the General Peoples Congress in Yemen. He disagreed with something that I want go into now, but he was put in prison and tortured. These people including many more called me to express their support for me and my wife's goal to have our government stop the aid to Yemen. Many still live in fear today that Saleh's PLO agents will find them and either hurt them or their families. Liberals please take note: Saleh's regimes is a real dictatorship, not Bush and America. That's what the Yemenis came here for, the freedoms we have and enjoy everyday.

And this last line is for the Pro Saleh People. I will not be dissuaded by your phone calls, and or implied threats. So enjoy your power trip while you can.
Terrorism: Politicians and Victims at 12/05/2008 12:08:00