August 26, 2004
Gitmo detainee admits "I am an Al Queda member"
Yemeni Poet Admits He's Al Qaeda Member
A Yemeni poet accused of crafting Al Qaeda propaganda defiantly admitted Thursday to a U.S. military commission that he is a member of Usama bin Laden's terror network.
Ali Hamza Ahmad Sulayman al Bahlul, 33, is charged with conspiracy to commit war crimes.
"As God is my witness, and the United States did not put any pressure on me, I am an Al Qaeda member," the detainee said through an Arabic interpreter.
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Bahlul is one of four Guantanamo detainees being arraigned at hearings this week as the first step toward trials by a five-member military commission — the first such proceedings since German saboteurs were tried secretly during World War II.
I'm sure the Left had ACLU lawyers at Camp X-Ray trying to get him off...and they probably had a poetry festival planned at Berzerkly with al Bahlul as the star, but that's not going to happen!
I sleep better at night knowing my government's got some real bad guys locked up on the island of Cuba and that our troops knew what they were doing when they rounded up jihadis like Bahlul!
