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Via Jeremy Scahill of The Nation: "On February 2, 2011, President Obama called Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh. The two discussed counterterrorism cooperation and the battle against Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. At the end of the call, according to a White House read-out, Obama "expressed concern" over the release of a man named Abdulelah Haider Shaye, whom Obama said "had been sentenced to five years in prison for his association with AQAP." It turned out that Shaye had not yet been released at the time of the call, but Saleh did have a pardon for him prepared and was ready to sign it. It would not have been unusual for the White House to express concern about Yemen's allowing AQAP suspects to go free. Suspicious prison breaks of Islamist militants in Yemen had been a regular occurrence over the past decade, and Saleh has been known to exploit the threat of terrorism to leverage counterterrorism dollars from the United States. But this case was different. Abdulelah Haider Shaye is not an Islamist militant or an Al Qaeda operative. He is a journalist...".* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
http://www.thenation.com/article/166757/why-president-obama-keeping-journalist-prison-yemen
Dokkie
(1,688 posts)but not anyone, this whole war on terror is slowing poisoning of Obama and his administration. The continues to go down this whole and when he comes out, he would be looking a lot like Dick Cheney.
Stop this stupid wars already and put that effort into fixing the economy.
Justice wanted
(2,657 posts)right now I'm only voting for Obama because he is the lesser of 2 evils. I'm finding that a lot of Obama policy is mirroring Bush.
Dokkie
(1,688 posts)I live in a solid red state, my vote probably wouldn't make any difference in the grand scheme of things. The rethugs will win my state regardless of which idiot republican wins their nomination. The best I can do is try to see if Bob Kerry can retain the seat vacated by Ben Nelson.
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