Turnstile Terrorism

American Journalism Center ^ | April 7, 2010 | Melissa Barnhart

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Turnstile Terrorism

Melissa Barnhart, April 7, 2010

The setbacks, challenges and successes of U.S.-led terrorist de-radicalization programs in Yemen and Afghanistan were the focus of a panel discussion held at the Heritage Foundation’s Washington, D.C. headquarters last month.

Charles “Cully” Stimson, senior legal fellow at the Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at the Heritage Foundation, noted that during World War II the U.S. held more than 400,000 Nazi POWs in custody in the U.S., and added that none were released during wartime. “A lot of people agree that we should not be rearming the enemy—committed Islamic jihadists—during wartime,” he said. “That’s exactly what we did during the Bush administration, for a variety of reasons, and that’s exactly what the Obama administration is intent on doing as well.”

Stimson said that although most people only focus on the detainees who are being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, other suspects are also being held in Iraq and Afghanistan.

“In Afghanistan today, under the leadership of Task Force 435, military commanders are developing a sustainable reintegration and combatant disengagement programs that, in time, will be transitioned to the government of Afghanistan for their use after the military ends detention operations,” Stimson said.

At the beginning of 2006, the U.S. began sending Guantanamo-based Saudi detainees back to Saudi Arabia to attend its de-radicalization program. (Saudi Arabia began its de-radicalization program in 2004.)....

[MarkT]

How successful has this foolish program been? Any info on the recidivism rate?

[Margot43]

Good afternoon MarkT, Your question about the recidivism rate is answered in the second half of the article. You can read the article in full at www.aim.org, or in archives at Accuracy In Academia. Thanks for your interest and for reading!