Tuesday, January 05, 2010

The Dirty Dozen (Updated)

No.....not the one's of Lee Marvin fame. When in the movie, he assembled his rag tag band to go and wreak havoc on the Nazis. This dirty dozen was assembled at Guantanamo and since having been released, they have arrived in Yemen and they are in training and in preparation to wreak havoc on America and the west.

Freed Guantánamo inmates are heading for Yemen to join al-Qaeda fight

At least a dozen former Guantánamo Bay inmates have rejoined al-Qaeda to fight in Yemen, The Times has learnt, amid growing concern over the ability of the country’s Government to accept almost 100 more former inmates from the detention centre.

The Obama Administration promised to close the Guantánamo facility by January 22, a deadline that it will be unable to meet. The 91 Yemeni prisoners in Guantánamo make up the largest national contingent among the 198 being held.

Six prisoners were returned to Yemen last month. After the Christmas Day bomb plot in Detroit, US officials are increasingly concerned that the country is becoming a hot-bed of terrorism. Eleven of the former inmates known to have rejoined al-Qaeda in Yemen were born in Saudi Arabia. The organisation merged its Saudi and Yemeni offshoots last year.


This is definitely change that I can believe in. I believe that it has already led to one attack on America that was barely foiled and I believe that there will be more as a result of the purposefully created weaknesses by this president.

(UPDATED)

(You can't make this stuff up)

For Amanda Simpson, believed to be America's first openly transgender presidential appointee, the job she starts Tuesday in the U.S. Commerce Department is an honor and the culmination of a career dedicated to understanding military technology.
Barack Obama Names Transgender Appointee to Commerce Department
President Obama recently named Amanda Simpson to be a Senior Technical Advisor to the Commerce Department.
(newscom.com)

But what gnaws at her, she says, is the fear of being labeled a token who was hired because of her sexual identity rather than on her merits.

"Being the first sucks,"
she told ABC News.com. "I'd rather not be the first but someone has to be first, or among the first. I think I'm experienced and very well qualified to deal with anything that might show up because I've broken barriers at lots of other places and I always win people over with who I am and what I can do."


Nothing like a choice of words to make the point being made crystal clear. Subliminals and Freudian slips can really make the moment.

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