{"id":1364248,"date":"2022-03-08T09:01:21","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T14:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1364248"},"modified":"2022-03-08T09:01:24","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T14:01:24","slug":"september-11-accomplice-leaves-guantanamo-bay-sent-home-to-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/september-11-accomplice-leaves-guantanamo-bay-sent-home-to-saudi-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"September 11 Accomplice Leaves Guantanamo Bay: Sent Home to Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fseptember-11-accomplice-leaves-guantanamo-bay-sent-home-to-saudi-arabia%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1364248&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">President Joe Biden\u2019s Department of Defense released Mohammad Mani Ahmad al-Qahtani back into the arms of Saudi Arabia after nearly 20 years in prison for his involvement in the September 11 terrorist attack.<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed the \u201c20th hijacker\u201d from September 11,\u00a0al-Qahtani was transferred out of Guantanamo Bay this week after a review board determined last year that he did not present a current national security threat.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe United States appreciates the willingness of Saudi Arabia and other partners to support ongoing U.S. efforts toward a deliberate and thorough process focused on responsibly reducing the detainee population and ultimately closing of the Guantanamo Bay facility,\u201d the Defense Department said in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/News\/Releases\/Release\/Article\/2957801\/guantanamo-bay-detainee-transfer-announced\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Mani Ahmad al-Qahtani has allegedly suffered from schizophrenia since a young age, according to Shayana Kadidal, senior managing attorney of the Guantanamo project at the Center for Constitutional Rights, with witnesses testifying to have seen him talking to himself and hearing voices.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20149866\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/03\/220307-Mohammad-Mani-Ahmad-al-Qahtani-ac-635p-6ee306-696x696.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Al-Qahtani had been accused of working with al Qaeda in lead up to the 9\/11 attack<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cIn a statement from February, the Center for Constitutional Rights said that an independent psychiatric expert examined al-Qahtani at Guantanamo and confirmed the diagnosis of schizophrenia in 2016, and the military\u2019s own doctors unanimously agreed with that conclusion,\u201d reported <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/guantanamo-detainee-linked-to-911-repatriation-saudi-arabia-mohammad-mani-ahmad-al-qahtani\/\">CBS News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Former Bush administration official Susan Crawford declined to recommend that\u00a0al-Qahtani be prosecuted in 2009, charging that his treatment in prison \u201cmet the legal definition of torture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s why I did not refer the case,\u201d Crawford told\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/01\/13\/AR2009011303372.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Washington Post<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mohammed al-Qahtani was tortured so badly that he was ineligible to be tried at the war crimes court <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nMfYzptvhI\">https:\/\/t.co\/nMfYzptvhI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kyle Rempfer (@Kyle_Rempfer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kyle_Rempfer\/status\/1500999536101179393?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 8, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Declassified <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prs.mil\/Portals\/60\/Documents\/ISN063\/20160309_U_ISN063_GOVERNMENTS_UNCLASSIFIED_SUMMARY_PUBLIC.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">court documents\u00a0<\/a>from 2016 show that al-Qahtani had been accused of working with al Qaeda in lead up to the 9\/11 attack and would have been the \u201c20th hijacker\u201d had he not been denied entry into the United States after immigration officers \u201cfound the circumstances of his travel and his conduct to be suspicious,\u201d according to the documents. Per CBS News:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The declassified documents said the lead hijacker, Mohammed Atta, was \u201calmost certainly\u201d waiting to pick up al-Qahtani at the Orlando airport in 2001 when he was denied entry and deported to the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<p>The government said al-Qahtani returned to Pakistan and Afghanistan in August 2001 to tell Atta and Osama bin Laden separately that he was denied entry to the U.S. He then traveled to Kabul to fight against the U.S. and its allies, the documents said. The government said al-Qahtani was briefly in Tora Bora and rejoined bin Laden and his bodyguards before being captured.<\/p>\n<p>The documents alleged he \u201crepeatedly\u201d tried to \u201cdisassociate himself\u201d from al Qaeda, although the government said that they believed his \u201crepeated denials of terrorism involvement\u201d limited their \u201cinsight into his motivation.\u201d His family has no known links to terrorism, the government said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>President Joe Biden has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/09\/19\/politics\/guantanamo-state-of-play\/index.html\">aimed to<\/a> eventually close Guantanamo Bay, currently home to 38 detainees.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) denounced al-Qahtani\u2019s release in a statement on Monday, calling him a \u201cterrorist who made it his life goal to kill Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe he remains committed to jihad and the destruction of the United States,\u201d\u00a0Rubio said. \u201cNow, because of the Biden Administration\u2019s misguided policies, he has the opportunity to once again return to the battlefield.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe decision to transfer al-Qahtani is not simply a lapse in judgment, it is a massive error which poses a serious risk to our national security and the security of our allies,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sen Rubio issued a statement following the transfer of Al-Qaeda terrorist Mohammed al-Qahtani from Guantanamo Bay to Saudi Arabia, calling it &#8220;a massive error which poses a serious risk to our national security and the security of our allies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more\u2b07\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hXF7EwkNCZ\">https:\/\/t.co\/hXF7EwkNCZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Senator Rubio Press (@SenRubioPress) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenRubioPress\/status\/1501027136097902593?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 8, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s Department of Defense released Mohammad Mani Ahmad al-Qahtani back into the arms of Saudi Arabia after nearly 20 years in prison for his involvement in the September<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1364248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1364248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1364248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1364248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1364248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}