While Americans were spending their weekend shopping for Christmas, attending parties, and generally busying themselves with the upcoming holidays, the Obama administration quietly released six Guantanamo Bay prison camp jihadis, who have been received by Uruguay. The infamous six — four Syrians, a Tunisian, and a Palestinian — were among the first to arrive in 2002. Just last year one of the Syrians conducted a hunger strike and asked for the US government to stop force feeding him. That doesn’t exactly sound like he’s been reformed of his jihadi ways, does it?

These guys should remain in Gitmo and receive Christmas visits from Krampus rather than receive the gift of freedom — ironically on the 73rd anniversary of the attacks on Pearl Harbor, an event that preceded by 60 years the 9/11 attacks, which these guys undoubtedly supported.

It’s not a complete surprise as to why Obama chose Uruguay, or why Uruguay accepted the prisoners. Uruguayan President Jose Mujica is a former leftist guerrilla who was imprisoned in that country from 1973-1985 — basically a left-wing fellow traveller like President Obama. Mujica also pulled a political stunt in the mold of Obama when he agreed to take the prisoners after his election, according to House Intelligence member Adam Schiff, a Democrat from California. A survey among Uruguayans taken in July showed that half the population was opposed to the arrival of these detainees.