Taming Terror
May 5, 2009 10:46 AM
What happens when a prisoner is set free from the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo? David Martin goes inside a Saudi Arabian program, which teaches alleged terrorists that Osama Bin Laden is all wrong.
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Have you investigated the civil rights abuses of the Saudi's lately? Check with the UN and Amnesty International. There is no comparison between our system of justice and the harsh Sharia Law based system they have. By the way, what happened to the 4000 + terror suspects the Saudis rounded up in their raids on suspected Al-Quaida and what "hard" methods were used on them. Gitmo is like the Hilton compared to what they must have endured at the hands of the Saudi's. I seriously doubt many of them are alive anymore anyway. (Have you heard about the recent tape released about the Saudi sheik torturing a local farmer over suspected theft). You focus on the "soft" Care program to rehabilitate the terror suspects and fail to expose their torture methods or horrendous treatment of their people. It is so nice for you to provide a platform where they make Gitmo out as such a harsh prison with the worst methods of torture. I especially like the art therapy program where the Saudi points at a picture and states that it represents Gitmo "probably". You allow a statement like that to go unquestioned? Once again America is the demon. What lead that terror suspect to land himself in Gitmo in the first place? I am sure he was just walking down the street and evil America profiled him and threw him in there.
It is interesting how you start out the whole story also of a rehabilitated Al-Quaida member who fought right with Osama Bin Laden. Of course he is rehabilitated, he had a choice of either being executed or being a spokesperson to promote the feel good Care Program along with being paid off with a car and a house and money for all his needs. This is Saudi Arabia's usual method with terrorism in their country. Pay them off as long as they don't commit terror in their country. Meanwhile, you fail to remind the viewers of the underlying causes of the problems in their country which sprout so much of the new followers into radical Islam. Saudi Arabia itself promotes hatred of the U.S. with its lower classes and immigrant workers to avoid them actually targeting the system there that creates the injustice and horrendous abuses of their society. America is once again a nice scapegoat for them and you help them to promote that ideology with stories like this.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1559151.stm
Shame on you, 60 Minutes, for continuing to spin the misrepresentations and outright untruths created by the Cheney-Bush junta...itself an illegal coup d'etat!