Maybe Obama should re-think that whole closing Gitmo thing

The Chicago Tribune is reporting that the men behind the Christmas airplane plot were released from Guantanamo Bay in 2007. 

Yes, this would make it a Bush screw-up, unrelated to Obama.  That doesn’t mean that Obama should do him one worse, though. 

And incidentally,

American officials agreed to send the two terrorists to Saudi Arabia where they entered into an “art therapy rehabilitation program” and were set free, according to U.S. and Saudi officials, ABC News reported.

Are you as shocked as I am that an “art therapy rehabilitation program” failed to actually rehabilitate?

Ann Althouse has more.

Update: White House,apparently undeterred by silly threats of a guy managing to sneak a bomb onto a plane and failing to detonate it through pure dumb luck, still plans to send (some) detainees to Yemin.  (HT: Ann Althouse).  Hey, Obama, how about you listen to me on something more important than just public perception?

I can’t even imagine

They have found some debris from the plane that went down over the Atlantic, but chances for recovering the “black boxes” are extremely small:

“Even in history … recorders from time to time were found after the 30 days. But I’m not so optimistic,” said Arslanian at a press conference Wednesday. “It’s not only deep it’s also very mountainous at that place of the ocean.”

Arslanian said answers on what caused the crash could take a long time.

“It could be long, we can not do with 80 percent understanding,” said Arslanian. “This catastrophe is the worst that our country has known in our country’s air history.”

I suspect that there are similarly miniscule chances of finding even the bodies of those who were lost.  How devastating for the families and loved ones- I cannot even imagine their pain, imaging the bodies lost forever to the ocean.  My father, who travels overseas quite frequently, recently returned from Russia- I assume that his plane took a similar route.  Devastating.