Where Do We Send The Guantanamo Bay Terrorists To In Two Years?

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• PRINCEWILLY@YMAIL.COM 9 years ago

  IN TWO YEARS TIME,THEY WILL BE MARRIED TO GHANAIAN WOMEN AND THEY MAY NEVER GO BACK.
  THERE ARE MANY LEBANESE,PAKISTANI AND SYRIAN WOMEN IN GHANA AND ONCE THEY START WORSHIPING IN THE MOSQUE THEY WILL HAVE ACCESS TO OUR GHANA ...
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  IN TWO YEARS TIME,THEY WILL BE MARRIED TO GHANAIAN WOMEN AND THEY MAY NEVER GO BACK.
  THERE ARE MANY LEBANESE,PAKISTANI AND SYRIAN WOMEN IN GHANA AND ONCE THEY START WORSHIPING IN THE MOSQUE THEY WILL HAVE ACCESS TO OUR GHANAIAN WOMEN.
  
  2015 SAN BERNARDINO ATTACK.
  
  On December 2, 2015, 14 people were killed and 22 were seriously injured in a terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California, which consisted of a mass shooting and an attempted bombing. The perpetrators, Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, a married couple living in the city of Redlands, targeted a San Bernardino County Department of Public Health training event and holiday party, of about 80 employees, in a rented banquet room. Farook was an American-born U.S. citizen of Pakistani descent, who worked as a health department employee. Malik was a Pakistani-born lawful permanent resident of the United States.
  Perpetrators Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik left their six-month-old daughter with Farook's mother at their Redlands home the morning of the attack, saying they were going to a doctor's appointment.[11][12] Farook, a health inspector for the San Bernardino County Department of Public Health, attended a departmental event at the banquet room of the Inland Regional Center.[13][14] The event began as a semi-annual all-staff meeting and training event, and was in the process of transitioning into a department holiday party/luncheon when the shooting began.[13][15] There was a total of 91 invited guests, with 75–80 people stated to have been in attendance.[15]
  
  Coworkers reported that Farook had been quiet and left midway through the event.[13][16] He posed for photos with other coworkers.[17][18][19]
  
  At 10:59 am PST, Farook and Malik, armed with semi-automatic pistols and semi-automatic rifles, opened fire on those in attendance.[20][21][22][23] They wore ski masks and black tactical gear (including load-bearing vests holding magazines and ammunition), but not ballistic or bulletproof vests.[15][24] The entire shooting took less than four minutes.[13] They fired between 65 and 75 bullets. The perpetrators departed the scene before police arrived.[23] An unidentified source told an NPR journalist that witnesses appeared to recognize Farook by his voice and build.[25] Sources reported that Malik pledged bay'ah (allegiance) to the leader of ISIL on a Facebook account associated with her as the attack was underway.[2][26][27] Later reports described the posting as being made on behalf of both shooters.[28]
  
  The perpetrators left three explosive devices connected to one another at the Inland Regional Center. The devices were described as three pipe bombs tied together combined with a remote controlled car. The devices failed to explode.[29][30] Authorities believe that the pipe bombs were meant to target the emergency personnel responding to the scene.[31] The device was hidden inside a canvas bag, and its build was similar to schematics published in Al Qaeda's Inspire magazine.
  After the shooting, the couple fled in a rented sport utility vehicle (SUV). Four hours later, police pursued their vehicle and killed them in a shootout. On December 3, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) opened a counter-terrorism investigation. On December 6, in a prime-time address delivered from the Oval Office, President Barack Obama defined the shooting an act of terrorism.
  
  According to FBI Director James B. Comey, the FBI's investigation revealed that the perpetrators were "homegrown violent extremists" inspired by foreign terrorist groups. They were not directed by such groups and were not part of any terrorist cell or network. FBI investigators have said that Farook and Malik had become radicalized over several years prior to the attack, consuming "poison on the internet" and expressing a commitment to jihadism and martyrdom in private messages to each other. Farook and Malik had traveled to Saudi Arabia in the years before the attack. The couple had amassed a large stockpile of weapons, ammunition, and bomb-making equipment in their home.
  
  Enrique Marquez Jr., a friend and former neighbor of Farook, was investigated in connection with his purchase of the two rifles used in the attack. Marquez was arrested on December 17 and charged with three federal criminal counts: conspiracy to provide material support for terrorism, making a false statement in connection with acquisition of firearms, and immigration fraud. Federal prosecutors allege that in 2011, Farook and Marquez conspired to carry out shooting and bombing attacks, which they abandoned at the time.
  
  The attack was the second-deadliest mass shooting in California after the 1984 San Ysidro McDonald's massacre, and the deadliest in the U.S. since the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, a domestic mass murder.[8][9] It was the worst terrorist attack to occur in the U.S. since the September 11 attacks.[10]

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• Baba Jamal 9 years ago

  In 2 years the 2 GITMOS + the 3rd GITMO(john mahama) shall be living in Tamale with their Ghanaian wives.

  In 2 years the 2 GITMOS + the 3rd GITMO(john mahama) shall be living in Tamale with their Ghanaian wives.

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• Don 9 years ago

  Only a dummy like our accidental President doesn't see the danger his stupid decision has put the country in.

  Only a dummy like our accidental President doesn't see the danger his stupid decision has put the country in.

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• joe navajo 9 years ago

  The US never have exit strategies. They cause chaos and then leave the mess for others to clean up. Case in question, Iraq, Libya, Syria etc

  The US never have exit strategies. They cause chaos and then leave the mess for others to clean up. Case in question, Iraq, Libya, Syria etc

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• Mensah Abrampa 9 years ago

  Are you talking of US EXIT strategy? Their EXIT strategy simply means finding a dumping place for their extremely dangerous prisoners. It's our dumb president who has no EXIT strategy.ASK President Mahama what his EXIT strate ...
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  Are you talking of US EXIT strategy? Their EXIT strategy simply means finding a dumping place for their extremely dangerous prisoners. It's our dumb president who has no EXIT strategy.ASK President Mahama what his EXIT strategy is. What happens after 2 years or it open ended strategy?

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• Joe 9 years ago

  Mahamah is a sorry President. What do we gain as a country to admit these mass murderers into Ghana? Because of personal gains of one man citizens of Ghana has become targets of terrorists.

  Mahamah is a sorry President. What do we gain as a country to admit these mass murderers into Ghana? Because of personal gains of one man citizens of Ghana has become targets of terrorists.

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• pee 9 years ago

  FYI !!according to the president they are not terrorists cos they were not even charged,he was comparing them to his 20yr old son.Go figure!!!

  FYI !!according to the president they are not terrorists cos they were not even charged,he was comparing them to his 20yr old son.Go figure!!!

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• DON'T TAIKE. 9 years ago

  Master ,is deal between Mahama and US government.In two (2) years time Mahama will not be in Ghana,so he cares not about Ghanaians.

  Master ,is deal between Mahama and US government.In two (2) years time Mahama will not be in Ghana,so he cares not about Ghanaians.

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• MARCUS AMPADU 9 years ago

  "WHERE DO WE SEND THE GUANTANAMO BAY TERRORISTS IN TWO YEARS IF WE FOUND THEM TO BE SECURITY RISK TO GHANA?"
  
  Good question to be answered by all clear thinking Ghanaians, not only our President.
  
  The fact is in our fr ...
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  "WHERE DO WE SEND THE GUANTANAMO BAY TERRORISTS IN TWO YEARS IF WE FOUND THEM TO BE SECURITY RISK TO GHANA?"
  
  Good question to be answered by all clear thinking Ghanaians, not only our President.
  
  The fact is in our frenzy to rid our nation of these two "hardened terrorists" from our shores, we are being overly emotional, scarcely using our thinking skills.
  We are assuming that the two Gitmo detainees are hopelessly inveterate, incorrigible, unlikely to change. What about the obverse - that the two ex-detainees do not become security risk to Ghana, but rather model Ghanaian citizens?
  After shaving their hairs, finding Ghanaian wives, who feed them, as you said, "Tuo saafe, banku , fufuo and akple", not to mention kenkey, nkatekwan with akrantie, bofrot & coaco for breakfast, ampesie with palava-sauce and waakye washed down with pito.
  
  Don't tell me that that these blood thirsty hirsute terrorists can't change their spots like cheetahs & leopards, simply because they are not reformable. Don't we have security agents to monitor their movements the two years they are in Ghana?
  
  We have to be more vigilant, as the UK High Commissioner intimated recently. The west also has to share information about terroristic activities with our security personnels.
  
  We are in election year, and the Gitmo saga is fast becoming political football viciously being played by those seeking to unseat the "corrupt & incompetent Mahama", despite his nomination by the UN General Sec. to head the conference on sustainability in Switzerland.
  
  I did not find the article by the Cardinal of Truth objective at all, he was obviously serving juicy red meat to his party affiliates who instantly sucked it up without much reflection.

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• SARPONG 9 years ago

  Objectivity is in the eye of the beholder. I wrote on the probability of them not reforming which is more than 80% if we go by the history of released Guantanamo detainees earlier.
  
  Kwame Ampadu, the probability of these te ...
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  Objectivity is in the eye of the beholder. I wrote on the probability of them not reforming which is more than 80% if we go by the history of released Guantanamo detainees earlier.
  
  Kwame Ampadu, the probability of these terrorists settling peacefully in Ghana is slim to none and slim just walked out of the door.

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• MARCUS AMPADU 9 years ago

  By the way, I was born on Sunday which makes me Kwasi. And I appreciate for taking the time to respond. Sarpong, I will apologize if you show me your statistical calculation of the former released Gitmo detainees that gave y ...
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  By the way, I was born on Sunday which makes me Kwasi. And I appreciate for taking the time to respond. Sarpong, I will apologize if you show me your statistical calculation of the former released Gitmo detainees that gave you the 80% probability, including those that went to UK.
  
  Of the 166 detainees incarcerated in Guantanamo Bay, only 90 are left.
  
  How many of those who found homes later became Guantanamo recidivists?

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• SARPONG 9 years ago

  First you want to know where I got my 80% from. Now tell me who told you only 166 people were initially incarcerated at Guantanamo Bay. There were 775 detainees at Guantanamo Bay at one time and at the moment we still have 93 ...
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  First you want to know where I got my 80% from. Now tell me who told you only 166 people were initially incarcerated at Guantanamo Bay. There were 775 detainees at Guantanamo Bay at one time and at the moment we still have 93 detainees.
  
  The terrorists released did not go back and become Librarians, the went back and resumed where they left off. One of them became terrorists leader in Yemen who was later killed by American drone.

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