December 23, 2014 2:39 PM MST Although President Barack Obama and his administration continue to aggressively push to closedown the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention center for terrorist prisoners, they might wish to review their own files on released detainees and where they are today. For example, according to the government watchdog Judicial Watch on Monday, an al-Qaida terrorist who was released from the military prison at Guantanamo, Cuba, is now wanted by the United States government for his jihadist activity and hes on a global terrorist list that offers $5 million for information about his location. Ibrahim al-Rubaysh was released from Gitmo and has moved up the ranks of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula. Courtesy of Rewards for Justice The fact that his own State Department released a memorandum about the former Gitmo detainee did not deter President Obama as he continues to release terrorists, the latest being four prisoners sent back to Afghanistan who were some of the first captured on the battlefield by U.S. forces. Obamas ultimate goal is closing Gitmo so that he can tell his supporters that he kept his 2008 campaign promise. The release of hundreds of Gitmo jihadists started with President George W. Bush after hed been lambasted by the Democrats and their news media chorus. Few have forgotten how Democrat Sen. Dick Durbin called the Guantanamo detention center a gulag and called the U.S. Marine Corps guards Nazis. While Vice President Dick Cheney, who said he didnt care what the leftists thought of him, argued against releasing detainees, Bush acquiesced to the liberal-left and began to release the prisoners. Unfortunately, the CIA and FBI believe that as many as 30 percent of the released prisoners returned to the ranks of Islamic terrorist groups including al-Qaida and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. According to documents obtained by Judicial Watch, U.S. government officials are secretly conceding that the U.S. made a major mistake when a Saudi national named Ibrahim al-Rubaysh was released in 2006 and he was transferred to a Saudi Arabian “rehabilitation” program. Unfortunately, because of obviously poor intelligence, that facility wasnt a reform school for jihadists, but a training center for future terrorists. A State Department memorandum describes al-Rubaysh currently being a senior advisor for [al-Qaida on the Arabian Peninsula or AQAP] operational planning and is involved in the planning of attacks. He has served as a senior AQAP sharia official since 2013, and as a senior AQAP sharia official, al-Rubaysh provides the justification for attacks conducted by AQAP. In addition, he has made public statements, including one in August 2014 where he called on Muslims to wage war against the United States.” The U.S. government is offering a $5 million reward for information that could lead to the capture of a terrorist who had already been captured and taken off the global battlefield. In fact, the bounty on his head is part of a $45 million jackpot being offered by the Obama State Department’s Rewards for Justice Program involving eight key AQAP leaders, among them al-Rubaysh. The bottom line remains: The U.S. had him and let him go. Now it’s offering a chunk of change for his capture. Uncle Sam has paid out over $125 million to more than 80 people who provided actionable information that put terrorists behind bars or prevented acts of international terrorism worldwide. The reward program appears to be the government’s best hope of capturing this terrorist it once held. Judicial Watch officials noted.
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