Americans fancy the idea that while we might have been asleep prior to 9/11/2001, now our eyes are wide open and we are on alert. This is a pipe dream.

If people’s eyes were truly open, they would be closely examining the path Gitmo detainee Said Ali al-Shihri took to Yemen, where we are now learning he helped plan the Christmas Jihad.

Said reportedly left Gitmo, went through “rehabilitation” in Saudi Arabia, then moved to Iran before ending up as a leader of al-Qaeda in Yemen.

For example, Said Ali al-Shihri left Gitmo in 2007 and became a patient in Saudi Arabia’s terrorist rehabilitation program. Upon graduation, he went to Iran, and then became the deputy leader of Al-Qaeda in Yemen. Abdullah al-Qarawi following a similar path, also traveling to Iran after finishing the program, where he know oversees over 100 Saudi Al-Qaeda operatives. Mohammed al-Oufi, a former Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula commander, also was released from Gitmo. Luckily, he defected later and informed the Saudis about Iran’s secret involvement with Al-Qaeda in Yemen and a plot to bomb the Saudi oil infrastructure. [READ MORE…]

Iran and al-Qaeda have a common goal in Yemen: Destroy the Saudi Royal Family.

The United States has known for a long time about the Iranian al-Qaeda connection related to Said Ali al-Shihri, but you shouldn’t take an evil libertarian-conservative’s word for it. You can read all about Said Ali al-Shihri and his history operating in Iran, in the New York Times:

The other inconvenient truth for the Obama Administration and the Progressive Left as a whole, is that Said Ali al-Shihri and his fellow Jihad terrorists who went from Gitmo to Yemen, were probably clients of Eric Holder’s law firm, Covington & Burling.

More info on the Yemeni Jihad connection to Eric Holder’s law firm Covington & Burling is available at Gateway Pundit, and Jammie Wearing Fool.

Bush might have let them go, but does anyone seriously believe he would have ever done so if not for the constant pressure applied by the American Progressive Left?

These Yemeni Jihad terrorists are the Progressive Left’s chickens coming home to roost on all of us!