Two former Guantanamo detainees arrested in Belgium

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Official: Two former Guantanamo detainees arrested in Belgium

)Two former detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba were arrested by Belgian police in a counterterrorism operation targeting a recruiting network for al Qaeda in Syria.

They were arrested Wednesday night along with three others as they were about to break into a house to raise funds in the town of Hoboken, near Antwerp, a senior Belgian counterterrorism official told CNN.

"We have dismantled a serious recruiting network for Syria," the official told CNN.

One of the former Guantanamo Bay detainees was Moussa Zemmouri, 37, a Moroccan national born in Antwerp, Belgian federal prosecutors announced Friday. The other was an Algerian identified as Soufiane A., who prosecutors believe spent time in Syria.

Both have been charged with participating in the activities of a terrorist group and all five have been charged with attempted armed robbery.

Zemmouri was released from Guantanamo in 2005 and authored a book "Innocent at Guantanamo" after returning to Belgium. His case was featured prominently by the UK Muslim prisoner advocacy group CAGE, which has long maintained that he has no links to terrorism.

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According to a 2003 detainee assessment file posted by the WikiLeaks website, Zemmouri was transferred to U.S. custody after he was detained by Pakistani police when fleeing Afghanistan after the beginning of the U.S. bombing campaign in autumn 2001.

The document alleged he had trained in the al Qaeda-sponsored Derunta training camp in Khost, Afghanistan. It said "sensitive reporting also indicates that detainee is a high-ranking member of the Theological Commission of the Moroccan Islamic Fighting Group (MIFG)."

According to the Belgian official, Zemmouri was put under observation after his return to Belgium. Belgian security services suspect he provided theological encouragement to several former members of the al Qaeda affiliated MIFG who left to fight jihad in Syria after they completed prison sentences in Belgian jails.

The official said there was no indication the group was plotting an attack in Belgium.

Efforts to immediately reach an attorney for Zemmouri were unsuccessful.

Belgian officials know of the identity of more than 300 extremists who have traveled from Belgium to join jihadi groups in Syria.

Obama administration in 'final stages' of planning Gitmo closing

http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/24/politics/former-guantanamo-detainees-arrested-belgium/index.html

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Gotta give the Donald something to do once he takes office, tracking down all the bad guys Obama plans to unleash on the world is a task I'm sure that the Donald will relish!

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Another Islamaphoboc post, I am sure they were just raing money for a peace campaign.

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And in the meanwhile it gives the motley crew reason to show feigned outrage and kvetch. The Jergens must be flying off the shelves...

Gotta give the Donald something to do once he takes office, tracking down all the bad guys Obama plans to unleash on the world is a task I'm sure that the Donald will relish!

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Waiting for Obama to release some more terrorist for another deserter

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Gotta give the Donald something to do once he takes office, tracking down all the bad guys Obama plans to unleash on the world is a task I'm sure that the Donald will relish!

Might be true.

Look at the Iranian Hostage crisis, the day Reagan took office they were released.

They Iranians had little fear of a weak President Carter..........

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His case was featured prominently by the UK Muslim prisoner advocacy group CAGE, which has long maintained that he has no links to terrorism.

any bets on whether they'll stay with that song and dance?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KyX79GKS0w

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Might be true.

Look at the Iranian Hostage crisis, the day Reagan took office they were released.

They Iranians had little fear of a weak President Carter..........

Don't you mean that Iran was more than willing to trade the hostages for purchasing US armaments? I'm pretty sure that they didn't give up the hostages out of fear.

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Don't you mean that Iran was more than willing to trade the hostages for purchasing US armaments? I'm pretty sure that they didn't give up the hostages out of fear.

They released the hostages after like 444 days minutes after Reagan took office...

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They were arrested Wednesday night along with three others as they were about to break into a house to raise funds in the town of Hoboken, near Antwerp, a senior Belgian counterterrorism official told CNN.

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They released the hostages after like 444 days minutes after Reagan took office...

In exchange for being sold US weaponry. Proceeds diverted to the Contra Rebels. That kind of scared you mean?

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In exchange for being sold US weaponry. Proceeds diverted to the Contra Rebels. That kind of scared you mean?

That was the Iran Contra affair in 1985.

The hostages were released a few minutes after swearing in Reagan in 1981.

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They released the hostages after like 444 days minutes after Reagan took office...

As a last slap in the face to Carter. They were hardly shaking in their shoes 5 minutes after Reagan got sworn in.

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Waiting for Obama to release some more terrorist for another deserter

It's interesting to note that CAGE got it wrong. Maybe its private funding will dry up, now?

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