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11 former Gitmo inmates on Saudi wanted list
The Saudi government acknowledged Wednesday that 11 men on the country's most wanted list are former Guantanamo prisoners who went through rehabilitation, raising doubts about a program intended to counter extremist religious ideology.President Barack Obama signed an executive order closing down the prison in Cuba on Jan. 22 his second day in office leaving nations scrambling over what to do with a potential flood of released detainees. Some 133 of Guantanamo's over 700 inmates were Saudi, according to Interior Ministry spokesman Gen. Mansour al-Turki, and 117 have returned to Saudi Arabia and been through rehabilitation programs. Posted by: ed 2009-02-04 |
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