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...been described as the Betty Ford Center for terrorists: Saudi Arabian officials boast that the Care Rehabilitation Center, outside Riyadh, has successfully deprogrammed scores of former jihadis, including more than 100 ex-inmates of the U.S.'s Guantánamo Bay military prison. As recently as last fall, Saudi officials claimed the program had a 100% success rate...
...That claim was dashed last week, when two alumni of the rehab program proudly announced to the world that they had returned to the jihad. In a video posted online, Saudi nationals Said al-Shihri and Abu al-Hareth al-Oufi - former detainees at Guantánamo Bay - boasted that they had become leaders of al-Qaeda in Yemen. (See pictures of the Care Rehabilitation Center...
...Pentagon says it will not change its policy on repatriating Gitmo detainees to Saudi Arabia. "There are never any absolute guarantees," said Navy spokesman Commander Jeffrey Gordon. "There's an inherent risk in all detainee transfers and releases from Guantánamo...
Perhaps President Barack Obama shouldn't close down the Guantánamo Bay detention camp quite so fast - it might be useful for all our new Ponzi princes...
...While the State Department cajoles foreign governments to take many of the detainees, it will fall to the Justice Department to decide where the rest of them will be held and tried. Since 9/11, federal courts have convicted 145 people on international terrorism charges vs. just two convictions from Guantánamo's military commissions. The eastern district of Virginia and southern district of New York have a great deal of experience with terrorism trials...