Posted on 08/21/2008 10:29:49 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Saudis use cash and counseling to fight terrorism
About 3,200 former militants have completed the ambitious program aimed at persuading them to disavow violent Islamist ideologies.
By Caryle Murphy | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
from the August 20, 2008 edition
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - Khalid al-Hubayshi's career as an Islamic warrior came to an end with the siege of Tora Bora in Afghanistan. Ordered to retreat, he walked through snow for six days. He was captured by Pakistani forces, delivered to the Americans, and relocated to a cage in Cuba.
The young Saudi's break with militant jihadi ideology was not as swift. It started in Guantánamo, but ripened only after he returned home in 2005 to an unexpected reception. Mr. Hubayshi was treated to a mix of forgiveness, theological reeducation, psychological counseling, prison time, and cash.
With this carrot-and-stick approach, the Saudis aimed to bring Hubayshi back into the fold of society and ensure, as much as possible, that he left behind old ways of thinking.
His treatment is part of an ambitious rehabilitation program for all Guantánamo returnees and other militant inmates that is designed to counter the ideology motivating many young Muslims who have turned to violence at home and abroad.
Started in 2004, the program seeks to convince prisoners to abandon what officials call "deviant" or "misguided" beliefs. It is run by a committee that includes a religious subcommittee of about 100 clerics, a psychological-social subcommittee of about 30 psychologists and social scientists, and a security subcommittee, which determines suitability for release and monitors ex-prisoners.
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It pays to be a Jihadi in Saudi Arabia. If you are at a dead end in life, become a Jihadi and get caught by Yanks, spend some time in Gittmo. Then you are set for life.:-)
You mean they don't just send them to the USA as Ivy League students any more?
Ultimately there will be wholesale slaughter of the masses by the Princes or they will be violently overthrown, in which case there will be wholesale slaughter of the masses by the west.
Either case, the islamonazis will never be reformed as long as western culture is not allowed to influence them.
We have a resort of our own
Club Gitmo
A place to relax and take a break from the stress of Jihad.
What kind of “re-education” are they giving them — how to not get caught next time?
Yes, I do believe this as I’ve covered this over this past year on The Thrreat Matrix.
However, do I believe it works?
That’s another kettle of fish.
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