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...most important thing about them: They’re just kind, normal people that you want to be around,” Caitlin v.V. Crump ’10 said...
...What is clear is that none of the jobs the government is trying to create would exist in a deep recession. The normal course of the economy would get the building of bridges done as the capital became available. The same holds true for adding to the energy grid or creating new broadband wiring. In a stable economy, private enterprise would get around to this work based on private capital seeing a need and potential profit...
...Brigadier General Mansour al-Turki, spokesman for the Saudi Interior Ministry, which runs the rehab program, claims the program's success stemmed from its guiding principle that jihadis are victims, rather than villains. "We think these people can be turned into normal human beings and be reintegrated into society," al-Turki told me when I visited Saudi Arabia during the Ramadan fast last summer. (Ironically, it was at the end of Ramadan that al-Shihri "disappeared," his father Jaber told the Saudi Gazzette newspaper...
...Once admitted to the center, the jihadis are put through a rigorous program of religious discussion - designed to wean them from misconceptions about what the Koran does and doesn't permit - and sessions with psychologists and sociologists. Some receive vocational training to prepare them for a "normal" life. The center is guarded by Saudi police, but it doesn't look or feel anything like a prison. TIME's Scott Macleod, who visited the center in fall 2007, says it's akin to a college campus or country club, where the detainees play Ping-Pong and sip Pepsi. It could hardly...
...planning to redeploy combat troops within 16 months." Senior officials in Iraq are making clear that they too are open to seeing U.S. troops depart ahead of schedule, setting the stage for a renegotiated U.S.-withdrawal deadline (See pictures of how Iraq's street are returning to normal...