Why is President Obama keeping
Yemeni journalist in prison?




Abdulelah Haider Shaye: Why Does Obama Want This Journalist To Remain In Prison?

By Jack Mirkinson
Huffington Post

On (last) Thursday's "Democracy Now," reporter Jeremy Scahill and a member of the Committee to Protect Journalists discussed the ongoing imprisonment of a Yemeni journalist, and his connection with President Obama.

Abdulelah Haider Shaye has been in prison since January of 2011. In a new article for The Nation, Scahill placed the blame for Shaye's continued imprisonment -- which has been condemned by many human rights and press freedom groups -- squarely on Obama. According to Scahill, Obama "expressed concern" about Shaye during a phone call with then-Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh, who had signalled his intent to pardon the journalist and free him. Instead, Shaye remains behind bars, branded as an ally of al Qaeda.

One of Shaye's biggest scoops was the uncovering of a U.S. missile strike in Yemen. As Scahill wrote:

On December 17, the Yemeni government announced that it had conducted a series of strikes against an al Qaeda training camp in the village of al Majala in Yemen's southern Abyan province, killing a number of al Qaeda militants. As the story spread across the world, Shaye traveled to al Majala. What he discovered were the remnants of Tomahawk cruise missiles and cluster bombs, neither of which are in the Yemeni military's arsenal. He photographed the missile parts, some of them bearing the label "Made in the USA," and distributed the photos to international media outlets. He revealed that among the victims of the strike were women, children and the elderly. To be exact, 14 women and 21 children were killed.


"Haider worked with ABC News," Scahill said. "The Washington Post paid his expenses for him to go and do an interview with Awlaki. He was identified by the New York Times as an al-Qaeda expert. And all of a sudden then, you find him becoming the target of the Saleh regime."

Mohamed Abdel Dayem, the coordinator of the Middle East and North Africa Program at the Committee to Protect Journalists, also spoke to the show on Thursday. He said that he first met Shaye in Yemen in 2010.

"Immediately I could tell that this was a very smart journalist, and a journalist who really was willing to put a lot on the line to get the tough stories," he said.



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Abdulelah Haider Shaye: Why Does Obama Want This Journalist To Remain In Prison? (VIDEO)

A Yemeni journalist, who worked for ABC News and the Washington
Post, and is cited by the New York Times as an Al-Qaeda expert, was
moments away from being released from a Yemeni prison, but now
remains there indefinitely at President Obama's request.

Having committed no real crimes to speak of, Abdulelah Haider Shaye
is perhaps guilty of exposing the U.S. involvement in the killing
of 14 women and 21 children in a so-called strike on Al-Qaeda
militants. A fact that President Obama wanted to be kept secret.

Shaye photographed remnants of Tomahawk cruise missiles and cluster
bombs, neither of which are in the Yemeni military's arsenal, and
revealed the U.S. role in the strikes which killed women, children,
and the elderly.

Perhaps the President is worried that if word gets out they will
ask for his Nobel Peace Prize back...

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Why? Well I guess because the Muslim in Chief says so!!!