Gitmo Grad Blows Himself Up

A 2004 graduate of the Gitmo terrorist prison has blown himself up rather than face arrest:

QUETTA, Pakistan — An ex-Guantanamo Bay inmate who led pro-Taliban militants in Pakistan after his release died Tuesday when he blew himself up with a grenade to avoid arrest, police said.

The death of Abdullah Mehsud is a boost to the government amid intense fighting between security forces and militants near the Afghan frontier and a run of homicide attacks across Pakistan.

Armed intelligence agents cornered Mehsud and three other men at the home of an Islamist politician in the southwestern town of Zhob, police officials said.

"My information is that Abdullah Mehsud killed himself," Zhob police chief Atta Mohammed told The Associated Press. "Thanks be to God that only he was blown up and our men were safe."

Federal Interior Ministry spokesman Javed Iqbal Cheema confirmed Mehsud's death, but provided no details.

The one-legged militant was released from the U.S. jail for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in March 2004 after he was captured in Afghanistan fighting for the Taliban.

He quickly took up arms again, and became a leader of militants in the South Waziristan region on the Afghan border, and was wanted for the kidnapping of two Chinese engineers later that year.

Somebody probably felt sorry for him because of his uni-leg condition and let him out of Gitmo in 2004, even though he clearly was not rehabilitated from his terrorist ways. Just think, if the Dems (and John McCain) have their way, guys like this will be brought from Gitmo to a prison near you, and when they're released by the bleeding hearts, where will they be released to?

Anybody want "Hoppy" Mehsud as their neighbor?