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"Rehabbed" Islamic militants arrested in Saudi Arabia
Everybody that's been cured, take one step forward.Not so fast, Mahmoud... Nine Saudi Islamic militants, including former Guantanamo inmates, have been rearrested in the Kingdom despite completing a controversial rehabilitation programme. Geez, one guy screws up and everybody pays. Oh, well. Insh Allah, boys... The arrests follow the embarrassing revelation last week that another Saudi Guantanamo Bay detainee who was released to the authorities in 2007 has emerged as the deputy leader of al-Qaeda's Yemeni branch of the terrorist organisation. Awwww, geez. Looks like the "repentence" thing just ain't working out, huh, boys... ... depends on your point of view ... Both incidents are a serious setback for the experimental regime in which Saudi terror suspects are "weaned off" Islamic militancy at the so-called "Betty Ford clinic" for jihadists. I can see! I CAN SEE!! The rearrest of nine Saudi militants has also underlined the dilemma now facing governments with nationals still being detained in Guantanamo Bay, following President Obama's decision to close the camp. He has called on other countries to take detainees to help clear out the controversial prison. Maybe they ought to tell him to change his mind... European foreign ministers are meeting in Brussels today to discuss ways of responding to the US President's request. Jean Asselborn, the Foreign Minister of Luzembourg, said: "The EU is not politically responsible for Guantanamo, it was an American decision and they have to take responsibility, but the EU must help people who were jailed, from a humanitarian point of view." Yep, the EU has it's priorities. How about we drop em all in Luxembourg? Maybe in Jean's neighborhood? At the Saudi rehabilitation centre, inmates selected for reform have access to a swimming pool, table tennis and PlayStations. They even play football with their guards. Wow. Just like "The Longest Yard"... During the programme, the militants have to attend lessons based on Islamic law which shuns the use of violence. A team of psychologists instruct them how to manage their emotions when seeing images on television of Muslims suffering in war situations. I wonder if they pin their eyes open and use the Wagner and the strobes? My bet?..................Nah. The Saudi authorities claimed that none of the militants who had been sent to the centre on the outskirts of Riyadh had returned to terrorism. Except for...that guy. The Pentagon claims that dozens of released Guantanamo detainees have "returned to the fight". ...and those guys. Maybe. Said Ali al-Shihri was suspected of being involved in the bombing of the US Embassy in Sana, Yemen's capital, in September last year. He had also been through the Saudi rehabilitation programme. He said he was cured. Did the fingerpaints and colored inside the lines and...everything. How were we to know? He and another Saudi national with al-Qaeda links had travelled to Yemen after completing the programme. Both men have appeared on a jihadist website. On the video, al-Shihri is seen sitting with three other men before a flag for al-Qaeda in Iraq. "By Allah, imprisonment only increased our persistence in our principles for which we went out, did jihad for, and were imprisoned for," al-Shihri said. Hmmmmmmmmmm...don't think that's what our Saudi friends were going for. Saudi Arabia has also built five jails, each housing 1,200 jihadist prisoners, who are given religious instruction. But the prisons hold senior al-Qaeda leaders and they have to endure maximum security conditions. What's that? No room service? Posted by: tu3031 2009-01-27 |
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