Guantanamo prisoner accused of being Osama bin Laden's associate has a DATING PROFILE on Match.com

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Anyone here looking for a date? Sounds like a fun guy.


Guantanamo prisoner accused of being Osama bin Laden's associate has a DATING PROFILE on Match.com which says he is 'detained but ready to mingle'

• Muhammad Rahim al-Afghani has been detained by the CIA since 2007
• He is accused of having been a close associate of Osama bin Laden
• Letters to lawyer reveal he has a Match.com profile, opted against Tinder
• He also writes animatedly about his respect for Caitlyn Jenner

By MIA DE GRAAF FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

PUBLISHED: 21:55 EST, 14 September 2015 | UPDATED: 00:14 EST, 15 September 2015



A Guantanamo Bay prisoner has an online dating profile.

Muhammad Rahim al-Afghani is looking for love on Match.com from the confines of his prison camp, where he has been held since 2007.

According to his lawyer Carlos Warner, who monitors the account, al-Afghani set up the profile in 2012.

With the location set to 'Guantanamo Bay', his tag line reads, 'detained but ready to mingle' - and he gets matches every day.

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This is Muhammad Rahim al-Afghani's Match.com profile picture. His lawyer runs his account, with the tag line 'detained but ready to mingle', as he remains in Guantanamo Bay. He has been in Camp 7 since 2007

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'I'll stick with Match.com': Al-Afghani jokes about the Ashley Madison hack in this letter.



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Jihadis don't like womens touchin' `em...

Women Guards Still Cannot Touch Male Prisoners at Gitmo
Mar 12, 2016 | The new commander of the US Southern Command told Congress on Thursday that some of the Guantánamo prison infrastructure is "deteriorating rapidly" but stopped short of seeking additional funding for new construction at the downsizing detention center.

Navy Adm. Kurt Tidd, who took charge Jan. 14, also disclosed for the first time that the number of gender discrimination complaints filed by Guantánamo troops over a judge's female guard no-touch order has risen to 15. Army Col. James L. Pohl, the judge, has for 14 months forbidden female guards from touching the five men accused of orchestrating the Sept. 11 attacks, who argue their religion forbids contact with women who aren't close relatives. The order has stirred outrage in Congress and among Pentagon brass. Now the judge is deciding whether to lift the ban and let female guards resume handling the five men as they go to and from legal meetings and court. "Some of our female troops must continue to deal with the frustration of a temporary court order that prevents them from performing their assigned duties, even though they are all fully trained, immensely qualified, and embody the values of equality and diversity that our nation espouses to the world and holds dear," the admiral said in sworn testimony presented at the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Tidd's spokeswoman, Army Col. Lisa Garcia, elaborated on Friday that eight men and seven women had filed the sexual discrimination complaints, all soldiers. The complaints were filed between Jan. 20 and Feb. 3, 2015, she said. On the infrastructure front, Tidd said in the written testimony that "most of the facilities constructed to temporary standards are deteriorating rapidly because of the harsh environment, ongoing mission demands and a chronic lack of funds for maintenance and recapitalization." He called housing for some of the 1,700 troops assigned to the 91-captive prison "dilapidated" and blamed rains from Hurricane Joaquin. Later, elaborating during a Pentagon press conference, Tidd called the various prison buildings that house the captives "state of the art" and invited Washington, D.C.-based reporters down to the detention center to take a look. The problems, he said, are at "peripheral" or "support" facilities, which are shored up through sustainment funds, and handled "in a piecemeal manner that rapidly becomes more costly than investment in new construction."

Guards at Joint Task Force Guantanamo -- both women and men -- have filed 15 gender-discrimination complaints. They are outraged by an order that bans female guards from touching male detainees.​

The prison has a 2,000-member staff, from guards to lawyers to Coast Guard security units, most on nine-month assignments. Officers typically live in townhouses but some enlisted troops live in trailer parks that were designed as temporary accommodations for short tours of duty. Tidd said that last year the US spent $24 million on "sustainment, restoration and modernization costs" of detention center facilities. He added that there had been a budget proposal to spend $231 million through 2018 on military construction for the war-on-terror prison -- but 90 percent of it was canceled in January 2015. The admiral did, however, welcome a question of whether he could make use of more resources to disrupt the flow of illegal drugs and migrants to the United States. "I do not have the ships, I do not have the aircraft, to be able to execute the detection-monitoring mission to the level that has been established for us to achieve," he told Florida Sen. Bill Nelson.

Tidd testified the same day the committee confirmed Eric Fanning as Secretary of the Army. Last year, Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kansas, placed a hold on the nomination of Fanning, the first openly gay leader of a US military service, to protest the Obama administration's efforts to close the detention center at Guantánamo. It was unclear when the full Senate would take up the nomination because Roberts' spokeswoman Sarah Little told the Associated Press on Thursday that the hold remains in place. At a press briefing later in the day, Admiral Tidd deftly ducked a series of questions on the wisdom of closing the Guantánamo detention center and on releasing certain captives. "In the conduct of armed conflict we have to be able to detain people some place. I have no opinion on where that should be."

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First Female Navy SEALs Could Get Assignments in 2017, Plans Show
Mar 10, 2016 | The first female enlisted Navy SEALs could be assigned to units next fall, and the first female SEAL officers could be in place by 2018, a newly approved Navy implementation plan shows.

The 50-page plan was made public on Thursday after the Pentagon announced that all services' plans to open previously closed combat and special ops positions to women had been approved. The announcement means the services can now begin training, recruiting and assignment to place female troops in previously closed jobs. According to the document, the first enlisted female sailors could enter the Naval Special Warfare training beginning with the prep course at Great Lakes, Illinois, in May, complete qualification September 2017, and undergo unit assignment the following month. For officers, the earliest possible scenario would see women entering training December, completing qualification in January 2018, and receiving assignments the following month.

For special warfare combatant-craft crewmen, an enlisted-only position, women could begin training as early as May and undergo assignment as soon as March 2017. "These dates were determined using best-case scenarios for the [Naval Special Warfare] operator pipeline assuming qualified application packages are received by the prescribed deadlines…and there are no delays," Rear Adm. Brian Losey, commander of Naval Special Warfare Command, wrote in a memo that introduces the implementation plan. "Most likely, start dates would shift to the next consecutive class number." He added that attrition and set-back rates would also play a role in how quickly women can enter these elite communities. SEAL officers have a 65-percent success rate; enlisted SEAL candidates have a 28-percent success rate; and SWCC candidates have only a 38-percent success rate, Losey said. Eighty percent of all students in SEAL and SWCC training pipelines experience a performance or medical setback that delays their progress, he said.

The Navy's plan describes lessons learned from the entry of women into the Navy explosive ordnance disposal and Navy diver communities. Officials warn that newly opened NSW positions will see relatively low interest from women and lower success rates. Female EOD officers make up just 2.5 percent of the total EOD officer population, the document states, while enlisted female EOD personnel make up just 0.9 percent of their community. Only 0.6 percent of Navy divers are women. Planners also warned against applying a quota system to fill newly opened positions with women, saying that quotas used in the past go unfilled and that they result in less-qualified candidates and "contribute to higher female attrition rates." A better solution is a gender-blind selection process, the plan states. At the Navy's Special Warfare Center in Coronado, California, the plan recommends increasing female staff by a factor of five in order to ensure female sailors entering the community have opportunities to be successful.

For the Navy's elite Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL school and other elements of the NSW pipeline, planners found the introduction of female students would require very little added infrastructure. The plan recommends spending $175,000 to install security cameras at BUD/S barracks and another $100,000 for shower and bathroom facilities for female sailors. At BUD/S, the Navy proposes "open bay" barracks facilities for male and female students, with privacy partitions built in to create gender-specific bathroom facilities. Losey maintained the Navy's commitment to maintaining rigorous standards for Naval Special Warfare as the service opens the community to women. "Any deviation from the validated, operationally relevant, gender-neutral standards would undermine true integration, disrupt unit cohesion, impact combat effectiveness, and be a disservice to those exceptional candidates willing to test and serve against the required and validated standards," he wrote.

First Female Navy SEALs Could Get Assignments in 2017, Plans Show | Military.com

 

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Granny says, "Dat's right - lock alla jihadis up an' throw away the key...

Never mind closing Guantanamo, Trump might make it bigger
Nov 15,`16 -- Never mind closing Guantanamo. It might be getting bigger.

President Barack Obama is running out of time to fulfill his longstanding promise to shutter the prison at the U.S. military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Sixty inmates remain in the facility and only a third are cleared for release. If Obama can't close it, his successor likely won't. Donald Trump has not only pledged to keep Guantanamo open, in April he said that "we're gonna load it up with some bad dudes, believe me. We're gonna load it up." He told The Miami Herald in an interview that month that he would support trying U.S. citizens accused of terrorism at the base, though that would require Congress to change federal law and would likely face constitutional challenges.

Opened in 2002 as a makeshift camp to hold men captured in the early fight against al-Qaida, Guantanamo has become a symbol of the strong-handed U.S. response to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Its advocates say it keeps dangerous terrorists locked up. Opponents say it violates basic human rights, with prisoners held indefinitely without charges. Obama has said it feeds anti-U.S. sentiment worldwide and that the prisoners could be held for less money at facilities in the United States.

U.S. military guards walk within Camp Delta military-run prison, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. Fears that Donald Trump will make good on his pledge to bring more prisoners to the U.S. base in Cuba have human rights groups making a final push for President Obama to close the detention center before he leaves office. But the odds are against that with 60 prisoners left, only a third currently cleared for release.​

Rights groups are determined to make one last push for Obama to close Guantanamo. "He knows what's at stake and he knows he can't leave the door to Guantanamo open for Donald Trump," said Naureen Shah, director of the security and human rights program at Amnesty International. It would take a bold and unlikely act of defiance, one that would face legal and political challenges, by Obama to shutter the prison before leaving office.

The Obama administration has repatriated or resettled nearly 180 Guantanamo prisoners. But he can't close the detention center because Congress has blocked it, most crucially with a ban on transferring men to facilities in the United States. An interagency security review has cleared 20 of the 60 remaining prisoners for transfer. An administration official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss information that has not yet been made public, said officials expect to complete a "substantial number" of those transfers before Obama leaves office on Jan. 20. "It is true that I have not been able to close the darn thing because of the congressional restrictions that have been placed on us," Obama said at a news conference Monday. "What is also true is we have greatly reduced the population. You now have significantly less than 100 people there. There are some additional transfers that may be taking place over next the two months."

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