And yet Obama wants to release even more Gitmo detainees so they can return to the battlefield.
Via LWJ:
Turkish counterterrorism forces reportedly arrested Ibrahim Sen, a former Guantanamo detainee, during raids against suspected al Qaeda members in six different provinces on Jan. 14.
Press reports identify Sen as a senior al Qaeda member and even al Qaeda’s “deputy leader” in the Middle East. The latter description is most likely an exaggeration, but according to multiple sources Sen was allegedly involved in an al Qaeda facilitation network.
According to Hürriyet, Sen and the other detained suspects have been accused of sending jihadists “to fight in Syria,” facilitating the travel of al Qaeda members coming from Afghanistan and Pakistan, “collecting money to help al Qaeda,” and “providing and distributing aid and weapons to be used in attacks in Syria, Pakistan and Afghanistan.”
This is the third time that Sen has been detained because of his suspected ties to al Qaeda and affiliated terrorist groups.
Sen was originally detained after fleeing Afghanistan for Pakistan in December 2001. He was transferred to American custody and then, beginning on Feb. 15, 2002, held in the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
According to a leaked Joint Task Force Guantanamo (JTF-GTMO) threat assessment authored several months later, on Sept. 27, 2002, US officials held Sen because his “travel profile matched that of a terrorist recruit.”