Biden’s handlers free another jihadi from Gitmo By Robert Spencer

Sufiyan Barhoumi, 48

Jihad Watch : He was recommended for release in 2016, but Obama’s defense secretary held him back. When what you’ve done is too much even for the Obama administration, you’re a bad hombre indeed.

Will Sufiyan Barhoumi return to jihad? Biden’s handlers don’t care. Their focus is entirely on the virtue-signaling Left, and for that crowd, every release of a jihadi from Guantánamo is good news.

Barhoumi never got a trial. American authorities decided early on that there was no jihad against the United States, and so every jihadi would be treated not as a prisoner of war, but as an individual criminal who would be tried as such. German soldiers captured during World War II weren’t given individual trials, but this time, we decided we weren’t in a war, but were just facing an unusually large gang of crooks. Authorities didn’t always follow through on this, and so Barhoumi remained untried.

“Algerian man held 20 years at Guantanamo Bay sent home,” by Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, April 2, 2022: An Algerian man, accused of training al-Qaeda terrorists and held at Guantanamo Bay since 2002, has been released and sent home to Algiers.

Sufiyan Barhoumi, 48, was recommended for release back in 2016 but was held back for six years nonetheless. Barhoumi’s release was agreed upon in February, the Department of Defense said Saturday in a statement. The Algerian government provided unspecified “security assurances.” Only 37 people remain detained at the notorious military prison in southern Cuba.

President Biden has resumed regular releases and stated his desire to close the controversial prison….