Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame

Suspected Terrorist Held in Secret on Ship Pleaded Guilty

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Published March 25, 2013, in Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame

By (@aaronkatersky) and (@leeferran)

The terrorist who was held in secret and interrogated on a U.S. Navy ship for two months before being flown to the U.S. has pleaded guilty to terrorism-related charges, federal officials said today.

Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame, a Somali national and a suspected leader of the al Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab terror group, was captured by U.S. special forces off Africa’s eastern coast in April 2011 and was taken to a nearby Navy ship where he was questioned by the U.S. High Value Detainee Interrogation Group (HIG) for intelligence purposes. The HIG is a group of interrogation experts composed of experts from the CIA, FBI and Defense Department and other security agencies.

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Terror suspect held on warship appears in NY court

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Published September 8, 2011, in Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame

A Somali citizen arrested on terrorism charges after he was interrogated aboard a U.S. warship made his first public court appearance Thursday.
 
Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame appeared briefly in U.S. District Court in Manhattan for a conference in which lawyers updated Judge Colleen McMahon on the status of the case.
 
According to court documents, Warsame helped train members of a Somalia-based terror group called al-Shabab from at least 2007 until April, resulting in the death of at least one person, and supported al-Qaida in Yemen.
 
He was captured by the U.S. military on April 19 and was interrogated aboard a Navy ship for two months before being moved to New York in July.
 
Authorities say during the interrogation he revealed important intelligence about al-Qaida in Yemen and its relationship with al-Shabab militants in Somalia. The two groups have been known to have ties, but the extent of that relationship has remained unclear.

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Obama’s Alleged Link to Secret Prisons and Extraordinary Rendition

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Published August 9, 2011, in Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame, Ahmed Abdullahi Hassan

Tom Parker – first posted July 14, 2011

Following hard on the heels of the revelation that the Obama administration had held Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame in secret detention on a US naval vessel patrolling off the coast of Somalia for over two months, comes a startling new claim from The Nation magazine that the Obama administration is back in the extraordinary rendition business.

Writing in the latest edition of The Nation, journalist Jeremy Scahill alleges that since early 2009 the United States has maintained a secret prison located on a compound within the perimeter of Mogadishu Airport and that in July 2009 the United States was involved in the extraordinary rendition of Ahmed Abdullahi Hassan from Kenya to Somalia.

Without further independent investigation it is difficult to make a definitive judgment about Scahill’s claims but it is worth noting that he is the author of the well-regarded study “Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army” and has extensive contacts in the intelligence, special forces, and private military contractor communities.

Hassan’s plight has been taken up by the UK-based human rights organization Reprieve and by the Kenyan human rights lawyer Mbugua Mureithi. Together they have obtained the following testimony from Hassan about his detention relayed by a former fellow prisoner:

“They put a bag on my head, Guantánamo style. They tied my hands behind my back and put me on a plane. In the early hours we landed in Mogadishu… I have been here for one year, seven months. I have been interrogated so many times. Interrogated by Somali men and white men. Every day. New faces show up. They have nothing on me. I have never seen a lawyer, never seen an outsider. Only other prisoners, interrogators, guards.”

The Warsame case has raised the possibility for the first time that the Obama administration might actually be holding other prisoners in secret detention facilities hidden around the world. Ahmed Hassan may be one such prisoner.

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U.S.S. Boxer – Torture Ship

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Published August 9, 2011, in Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame, U.S.S. Boxer

This is a photo of the U.S.S. Boxer, the torture ship that Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame was interrogated on for two months before being brought to U.S. Soil and before the world was informed of his capture.  For two months he was a “Ghost Prisoner” on this ship.  Obama told us, in his first year as U.S. President that he was closing all “Black Sites,” and that there would be no more “Ghost Prisoners.”  One more promise shattered.  Count me – not surprised.

USS Boxer Website

USS Boxer Facebook Page (you can leave comments there)

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America’s Dirty War on Islam

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Published July 15, 2011, in Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame

by Stephen Lendman

America’s dirty war, in fact, targets Blacks, Latinos, Native Americans, political activists, and Muslims for their faith, ethnicity, and at times prominence and charity, exploiting them as “war on terror” scapegoats.

On July 9, a Press TV US prison system racket interview highlighted the problem and urgency to address it, accessed through the following link:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/188396.html

America’s media ignore how unjustly it harms millions of disadvantaged people. Instead, they regurgitate spurious high-profile case accusations, always when Muslims are affected. Most often they’re men, occasionally women, bogusly charged with terrorism or conspiracy to commit it, when, in fact, they’re guilty only of being targets of choice and/or being in America at the wrong time.

Why Muslims when, in fact, Islam teaches love, not hate; peace, not violence; charity, not selfishness; and tolerance, not terrorism; or that Islam, Christianity and Judaism have common roots.

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U.S. legal dilemma exposed by Somali terror case

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Published July 14, 2011, in Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame

By Noah Feldman, Bloomberg News

What do you do with a captured terrorist? Throw him in the brig.

That’s what was done with Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame, the Somali who in April was plucked from a fishing boat off the East African coast between Yemen and Somalia.

Once you’ve got him, though, the legal troubles begin. Because the U. S. Supreme Court rejected the Bush administration’s vague plan of indefinitely detaining “enemy combatants” in Guantanamo without any hearing, the U. S. government was left with three lawful choices for what to do with Warsame:

It could have determined at a simple military hearing that he was part of al-Qaida, with which the United States is at war, and detained him as a prisoner of war.

It could have charged him with war crimes before a military tribunal. Or it could have filed terrorism charges against him in a civilian court — which is what the Justice Department did to Warsame last week.

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A Few More Points About “Gitmo At Sea”

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Published July 9, 2011, in Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame, Ghost, Secret Prisons

Adam Serwer

I just wanted to address a few more issues regarding the two-month seaborne detention of terrorism suspect Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame.

Legal Authority: The U.S. is arguing that Warsame is subject to military detention under the 2001 Authorization to use Military Force because he is a member of al Shabab.

“The detention of an individual covered by the AUMF is not considered different from a legal perspective if they’re held on a U.S. Naval ship or if they’re held on a U.S. Naval base,” says Ken Gude, a human-rights and national-security expert at the Center for American Progress. “If they’re covered by the AUMF, they can be held by the U.S. military.” Gude points out that the U.S. has been conducting military operations in the region since the Bush administration.

The ACLU’s Ben Wizner, however, argues that this interpretation of the AUMF is strained. “It’s hard to fathom that Congress in 2001, was giving authority to hold without charge or trial, someone part of a group that did not exist at the time,” Wizner says. “This wasn’t anything we used to question. If you arrest someone involved in criminal activity overseas, then you brought them to a judge and put them on trial.”

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New York Trial For Somali Terrorism Suspect Reignites Gitmo Debate

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Published July 7, 2011, in Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame, Guantanamo

Susan Crabtree

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) is pushing back against GOP criticism of the Obama administration’s decision to bring Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame, the Somali man facing terrorism charges, to New York for trial.

Feinstein, an influential and respected voice on intelligence and national security issues, said the intelligence panel has been kept fully informed on Warsame’s interrogations and the intelligence they produced, adding that she agreed with the decision to try him civilian court.

“I have been in favor of allowing the President to make these decisions on a case-by-case basis, and there is good reason to support the decision of the executive branch in this case,” she said. “…The Bush Administration utilized the federal courts to prosecute terrorists and so should the Obama Administration. Military Commissions are an option depending on the nature of the case.”

Pointing to the more than 300 convicted terrorists who have been tried in federal courts, Feinstein predicted that Warsame will be added to that list.

Earlier Wednesday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) ripped the Obama administration for its decision to bring Warsame to New York for trial, arguing that the administration’s “ideological rigidity” is “harming the national security” of the country.

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Somali man was interrogated on U.S. Navy ship for two months without lawyer or rights

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Published July 7, 2011, in Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame, Ghost, Rendition

Confinement contradicts Obama doctrine on ‘Gitmo’ inmates

By Daily Mail Reporter

A Somali man was interrogated for two months aboard a U.S. navy vessel without being read his rights, it has emerged.

Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame appeared in a New York court on Tuesday morning and pleaded not guilty to providing material support to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and the Somali group Al Shabaab.

It is thought that the revelation that Warsame was kept aboard the ship may cause problems for prosecutors.

When Warsame was arrested in April by the U.S. military in the Gulf, he was questioned about anti-terrorism ‘for intelligence purposes for more than two months’ before being read his Miranda rights, the prosecutors said in a statement.

Miranda rights entitle suspects to a lawyer and the right to remain silent.

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Somali detainee linked to Qaeda cleric: US

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Published July 7, 2011, in Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame, Imam Anwar al-Awlaki, Yemen

FD Editor Note:  SIGH!  Here we go again… everyone is tied to Imam Al-Awlaki…for those of you unaware – this is Obama’s excuse for sending unmanned (cowardly) drones into Yemen, bombing civilians.

WASHINGTON — A Somali terror suspect captured and detained by the United States has links to Anwar al-Awlaqi, a key leader of Al-Qaeda’s branch in Yemen, a US official said Thursday.

Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame, who was captured in the Gulf by the US military on April 19 and is now facing terror charges, had contacts with Awlaqi and “was a key interlocutor” between Somalia’s Shebab Islamist insurgency and Awlaqi’s Al-Qaeda outfit in Yemen, the official told AFP.

“He was a senior commander” in Shebab, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The Somali national was indicted on Tuesday in a New York court on charges of providing material support to both Shebab and Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, (AQAP).

Warsame, 25, faces nine counts including acting as a go-between between the two groups, providing them with both money and training between 2007 and 2011. He faces a life sentence if convicted on the terror and weapons charges.

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