“We Are Going To Pay For This In The Future”: Obama Frees Over 100 Iranian-Backed Terrorists On New Year’s Eve – Blood Of US Troops On Their Hands – “Astonishing”
Dec 31, 2009 17 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Bill Roggio in The Weekly Standard:
The British are all smiles over the release of Peter Moore, a British citizen who was held hostage by an Iranian-backed Shia terror group in Iraq. But there is little talk about the price paid to secure Moore’s release. The US military has freed Qais Qazali, the leader of the Asaib al Haq, or League of the Righteous, as well as his brother Laith, several Qods Force officers, and more than 100 members of the terror group, in exchange for Moore. And that isn’t all. The British also received the corpses of three security contractors who were working to protect Moore when he was kidnapped at the Finance Ministry in Baghdad in May 2007. The three contractors were executed by the Asaib al Haq; another is also thought to have been killed.
It’s Not Yet Friday, But It Is New Year’s Eve — What Better Time To Release An Iran-Backed Terror Master Who Murdered American Troops? [Andy McCarthy]
I can’t believe I am writing this while Iranian tyrants are brutally suppressing a revolt by the Iranian people … and only days after the Obama administration made a fiasco of a terrorist attack that nearly killed 289 people.
Today, New Year’s Eve, while everyone’s attention is understandably on family and friends, we learn (thanks to the ever alert Bill Roggio, reporting on the Standard’s blog) that the administration has now released Qais Qazali, Laith’s brother, who is the head of the Iran-backed terror network, in addition to a hundred other terrorists.
As Bill elaborated in the Long War Journal: “We let a very dangerous man go, a man whose hands are stained with US and Iraqi blood,†a military officer said. “We are going to pay for this in the future.â€
It is just astonishing.
