Saudi former al-Qaeda Islamists play volleyball at a rehabilitation center for militants in Riyadh.Photo AFP
One In Five Guantanamo Detainees Rejects Rehab -- The National
RIYADH // Extremists who spent time at Guantanamo are twice as likely to relapse than others attending Saudi Arabia’s much-praised rehabilitation programme, a senior interior ministry official said yesterday.
Extremists had an overall relapse rate of about 9.5 per cent, but that number soars to around 20 per cent for those who joined the programme from Guantanamo.
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Update #1: 25 Saudi Guantanamo prisoners return to militancy -- Reuters
Update #2: 20 percent failure rate in Saudi Gitmo rehab programme -- AFP
My Comment: The Saudi explanation for this failure .... it is all the Americans fault ....
He also blamed the treatment they received at the US military-run detention camp in Cuba.
Yup .... those evil American infidels and their policy of torture .... while the Saudi Kingdom would never contemplate doing such things.
What a difference a year makes .... last year the Obama administration was hailing this "rehab" program.
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