Riyadh, Saudi Arabia "“ Two Saudis formerly jailed at the US prison camp in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, have joined Al Qaeda's Yemeni branch, and authorities here worry that two other ex-Guantánamo inmates may have strayed back to militancy because they have recently disappeared from their homes.
The revelations illustrate the difficulties faced both by President Obama, who has pledged to shutter the facility for terror suspects, and the Saudi government, which is trying to reform its own radical jihadis, many of whom were imprisoned at Guantánamo before being released back to the kingdom.
The two Saudis working with Al Qaeda in Yemen, in addition to the two missing ex-Guantánamo detainees, participated in a Saudi rehabilitation program to counter violent ideology and reintegrate militants into society, says Gen. Mansour al-Turki, the Saudi Interior Ministry spokesman.
For several years i have beenaware that terrorists were beinglet out the back door at Gitmo.No one in the Bush administration talked about it, of course. This was first brought to my attention by an Arab colonel who is in chargeof counter-terrorism in his country.As of July, 2007; 77 Saudi "detainees" had been released from detention. Now Obama willlet the rest of them go.
Savvy Democrats ought to be questioning the Bush administration"™s mass release of Saudi detainees given such analysis. But they"™re all too busy pressing for the immediate closure of Gitmo and the full liberation of every last detainee from the facility
Former "Detainees" Join al Queda in Yemen
