Young Saudi men released from Guantánamo Bay as well as prisons in Iraq and Saudi Arabia listen to a Muslim cleric during a course at a rehabilitation center near RiyadhHassan Ammar / AFP / Getty
From Time Magazine:
It's 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.
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My Comment: 62 former Guantanamo inmates have returned to terror. Of those who have not gone back to terror .... I am sure that if it came to being pushed and shoved, most of them would go back to jihad.
So .... can Jihadists be rehabilitated? Hmmm ... can a devout Muslim renounce his faith?
I do not think so.
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