Center welcomes House GOP video illuminating folly of Obama approach to Gitmo

Washington, DC: Tonight, the Center for Security Policy applauded the release, by leaders of the House Republican Conference, of a video reminding every American of the dangers of the unlawful enemy combatants currently being securely detained at the Guantanamo Bay facility in Cuba.

"This video raises the central questions," Center President Frank Gaffney asked. "’What is President Obama’s plan for detaining or releasing prisoners once Guantanamo is closed? And how does it make us safer?’"

"The President has made a terrible mistake in closing the finest, most secure and best-run detention and interrogation facility in the world– with no clue as to what will be done with its prisoners in the next six or seven months."

"Worse still, a number of them are expected to be turned loose on the American people by releasing them into Alexandria, Virginia or some other unsuspecting– and highly vulnerable– community in this country."

"A proposal was announced this week to send 100 Yemeni detainees to Saudi Arabia to undergo a Saudi government ‘rehabilitation program’ for Jihadists.  This is a preposterous idea; violent Jihad against "infidels" is a central obligation for those, like the Gitmo detainees, who adhere to the program authoritative Islam calls Shariah."

"Even if detainees are shipped to one or more federal penitentiaries, they will pose a grave danger.  They can teach terrorist technique and ideology to others in prison communities already rife with Islamist proselytization. And their neighbors beyond the prison walls will become new soft targets for the detainees’ friends."

The Center urges a public repudiation and congressional prohibition on any Obama administration plan to transfer Guantanamo detainees– let alone, their release into the United States.

To view the video, go to https://www.gop.gov/detainees/video/safer or watch it below.