Nine Yemenis graduate from Guantanamo University
Reuters reports that nine Yemenis have been moved from the Guantanamo detainee center to one in Saudi Arabia. Of course, this is how the Obama Administration thinks that it can do away with the need for the off-shore prison. 80 detainees remain in the facility, most haven’t been charged, but then do they really need to be charged? How many German POWs held in camps around the US had been charged?
The transfer, which took place just days before President Barack Obama’s visit to Saudi Arabia for a summit of Gulf Arab allies, marked the latest step in his final push to close the controversial detention center at the U.S. naval base in Cuba before he leaves office in January 2017.
The Saudis agreed, after lengthy negotiations that at one point involved Obama and Saudi King Salman, to take the nine Yemenis for resettlement and put them through a government-run rehabilitation program that seeks to reintegrate militants into society, the officials said.
Republicans claim that 30% of Guantanamo detainees released back into the wild are recidivists who return to their terrorist ways. Supporters of the Obama Administration dispute those numbers, but the last report was in 2014. Of the 620 detainees who were released, 184 either returned to the terrorists’ fold or are suspected to have returned.
At least these guys are Saudi Arabia’s problem for the time being.
Category: Terror War
Which part of the Saudi system are they going into? The “Mideival on Yo’ Ass” part of the “Catch & Release” part?
Doesn’t it make your heart swell in pride when GITMO alumnus move on to graduate programs?
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Dear old Jihad U, where they separate the men from the boys. With an ax handle, if necessary.
Do they have decals of Gitmo University to place on the back of their self-murder car bombs?
Sending a Islamist to Saudi for rehabilitation is like sending a fat person to baskin robbins to work on their diet.
They should give them a ride to Saudi Arabia on a cruise missile.