[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 139 (Friday, September 25, 2015)]
[House]
[Page H6257]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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         ANOTHER TERRORIST GETS A ``GET OUT OF JAIL'' FREE CARD

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, another GTMO terrorist has been 
released back into the world by this administration. Abdul Shalabi, a 
bodyguard for Osama bin Laden, is now a free man thanks to our 
government.
  But this isn't the first time known terrorists have been freed. There 
is the notorious Taliban Five; and at least one of these terrorist 
prisoners has allegedly started communicating with his old terrorist 
buddies in the Middle East. No surprise there; once a terrorist, always 
a terrorist.
  Do we think that after years in prison these terrorists will somehow 
change their mind and not be a threat to America?
  One report even claimed that Shalabi may have been considered one of 
the 9/11 attackers. Isn't that lovely.
  The administration has its priorities backwards. The administration 
should be working just as hard to free the four Americans trapped in 
the jaws of terror in Iran as it is freeing known terrorists who will 
return to their old ways of mischief.
  And that is just the way it is.

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