Reeducating Osama Bin Laden's Disciples

60 Minutes: Saudi Government Tries To Rehabilitate Former Guantanamo Prisoners, Jihadists

(CBS)  America's top intelligence officer, Admiral Dennis Blair, has said the sight of former Guantanamo inmates showing up in al Qaeda videos "does not inspire confidence in the Saudi program."

But there is a more disturbing case which raises the question whether Guantanamo itself is turning out suicidal terrorists: Abdallah al Ajmi was a Kuwaiti and did not go through the Saudi program.

Two years after he was released from Guantanamo he showed up in a martyr video with an explosives-laden truck he was about to drive into an Iraqi army base in Mosul; 13 Iraqi soldiers were killed.

It is impossible to know whether a rehabilitation program like Saudi Arabia's could have turned Ajmi around.

"Now there is a suicide bomber who killed people. Doesn't that tell you that you just can't take the chance of releasing people from Guantanamo?" Martin asked Boucek.

"I think what that tells you is that when you release somebody you need to have a very, very thorough program to reintegrate back into society, right? I mean, the Saudis who have been repatriated thus far, to the best of my knowledge right now nobody has been involved in violence yet," Boucek said.

Boucek says the recidivism rate among Guantanamo returnees is better than prisoners released from American jails, but neither he nor the Saudis claim it can ever be perfect.

"Here's what some people would say. If we're talking about people who would strap a bomb on their bodies, walk into a marketplace and kill 50 people, you have to be perfect?" Martin asked Dr. Hadlaq.

"Let me assure you, these kind of people you are talking about they are not going to be out from jail," Hadlaq replied.

[babooph]

Let's try & re educate the Bush followers 1st.

[sdesgrou95030]

So called "terrorist". Are you kidding me? Where did you get your journalistic degree, Obama school for left-wing news casters? Why don't you journalist start feeling some bit of sympathy for the victims of 9/11 instead of the terrorist who took 5,000 innocent American lives? I can understand why Obama sympathizes with them, after all he has never hidden his love for the middle east, but if you are going to do a story, please don't insult the American intelligence by trying to portray these terrorist as victims. THEY ARE TERRORIST, AND IF THEY HAD A BAD EXPERIENCE IN GITMO, GOOD!!!! I COULD CARE LESS IF THEY HAVE THEIR BONES BROKEN, THEIR NAILS TORN OUT, OR HOOKED UP TO A DIE HARD BATTERY, IF IT SAVED ONE AMERICAN LIFE. WHY DON'T YOU AND THE REST OF YOUR LEFT WING NUT CASES CARE ABOUT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE? INSTEAD YOU WORRY AND HAVE SYMPATHY FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE MADE IT THEIR LIFE LONG GOAL TO KILL AMERICANS. MY ONLY HOPE IS THAT WHEN THEY ATTACK US AGAIN, AND THEY WILL THAT THEY GET AS MANY LIBERALS AS THEY CAN GET, BECAUSE YOU ARE THE ONES WHO WANT TO GIVE THEM THEIR FREEDOM, AND THEIR RIGHTS, SO THEY CAN GO OUT AND KILL AGAIN. YOU PEOPLE ARE JUST PLAIN STUPID!!!!!

[tmittelstaed]

It is fascinating how these Muslims are using the very techniques advocated by Christ in dealing with your enemies and having so much success with them. A 10% recidivism rate is an incredible success. The US recidivism rate from US prisons is around 60%

[impeachbhb]

Obama can use some of our stimulus funds to help these poor political prisoners establish a life in the US. A bribe of a few million dollars should help keep them from wanting to attack us again.
Maybe he can work out a payola deal with Osama to keep us safe.

Obama is the reincarnation of Jimmy Carter and we will pay the price before his term is over. Terrorists will run all over wimps.

[growlll]

Wow, what a negative nazi attitude from the left there.

[dragn29]

is ok pythoncharlie i'll kill a few of them just for you while i am in afganistan or iraq.

[dsr57]

I always wonder why most of the posters here liken the religious to whites. The most religious people in america are Latinos and the black population

[dragn29]

WE NEED TO ROUND UP THE CONSERVATIVES AND GET THEM RE-EDUCATED,

SOME OF THEM STILL THINK THE EARTH IS FLAT AND THAT GW BUSH WAS HONEST,

THE REPUBLICON PARTY HAS BECOME THE ENEMY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE,

EXTREMIST NAZI's


yep, sound like the liberal has went extremist nazi to me.

[debinok1]

Still sounds more like rewards than re-education to me. Houses, cars, and expensive weddings. That is not re-education that is a bonus.

[dkhorse11]

Reeducating Osama Bin Laden's Disciples.

I say reeducate with a Predator drone overhead.

For all the bleeding hearts say we made them into terrorists because of their treatment, well I guess they are now terrorists, and we need to take them out.