Posted on 01/27/2009 4:36:14 AM PST by Man50D
President Barack Obama’s plan to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will include the trial or release of the 250 detainees still held there, but the Yemen government has said 101 of those prisoners should be sent home.
“We want our detainees back,” Mohammed Albasha, spokesman for the Yemeni Embassy in Washington, D.C., told CNSNews.com, adding that “a plot of land” has already been set aside for a center to rehabilitate the men once they are repatriated.
Albasha said the rehabilitation program will include psychological counseling, religious dialogue, vocational training and arranged marriages.
“By the time they leave the center they can have their careers,” Albasha said. “They can have their families.”
Four of the 101 Yemeni prisoners at Guantanamo, or Gitmo, have been convicted or charged with war crimes for participation in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States.
But Albasha claims that most of those being held are not dangerous.
“The majority of them, they didn’t find blood on their hands,” Albasha said. “They were in the wrong place at the wrong time,” and this makes it possible for them to be rehabilitated.
“These people are brainwashed,” he said. “You have to attempt to change them.”
The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, however, claims that an earlier rehabilitation program in Yemen failed, with some of the more than 300 participants returning to the battlefield.
Among them were three of the seven men who took part in the bombing of a U.S. Embassy in the Yemen city of Sana in September that killed 11 people, including one American.
In January 2007, suspected al Qaeda operatives killed eight Spanish tourists and two Yemenis at the Belquis Temple in Marib, and two Belgians died when a tourist convoy was attacked in the eastern Hadramout Governorate, according to the U.S. State Department.
In February 2006, 23 al Qaeda suspects escaped from a Sana prison, with three remaining at large – and the Yemeni port city of Aden was the site of the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, which killed 17 American troops.
Albasha said he thinks the Yemeni government’s crack down on al Qaeda and other militant groups has caused retaliation and increased violence, but he said rehabilitating the Gitmo detainees who are returned to Yemen is a part of the country’s long-term strategy to fight terrorism.
“We hope to change their idealism and assimilate them back into society – and why not?” Albasha said. “Give us a chance.”
This article ought to be labeled as humor, but I know it’s not. Yeman wants their terrorists back. Another country that is not our friend.
A decent and fully understood way to honor our sacrifice of 17 US sailors?
Drop them off in Yemen....from 30,000 feet without parachutes.
A plot of ground has been set aside for their rehabilitation. More likely a training ceter for terrorism.
I would bet they know the location of every on of the previous escapee’s
Well, this absolutely solves Obama’s problem.
One night when they go to sleep, hit them with explosive RFID tracking tags.
Turn them over to the government. If one goes to the battlefield... pfft.
Do a Snake Pliskin on them.
What better way fr “O” to show the world he is for change? Let these people go back to their homeland and re re-indoctrinated. The next time Yemen is suspected of harboring terrorists, the blood will be on “O”’s hands. All he is doing now is hiding behind Bush’s policies.
This and closing Gitmo will be like Bill Clinton’s infamous not accepting Bin Laden, only 100 times worse because we actually had the next OBL in our prison and Barack Obiwan let him go.
Their rehabilitation program sounds really good. I say we give them the ocean liner, actually several ocean liners, filled with all of our most violent habitual felons. How many would that be, maybe a couple hundred thousand? It’s worth a try.
They can spread that word that US detention is a cake walk. We didn’t burn/cut/mutilate/shock them etc. like the average muslim country would. I can’t imagine the emboldening factor of releasing these people. It’s idiotic so obama will probably do it.
We'll load them on board a "special" military aircraft; one whose hold is absolutely smooth aluminium throughout. No seats, no straps, no conduits, no handholds of any kind...just smooth aluminium...with four very large cargo doors - two on each side...and a completely sealed and pressurized cockpit!
Then we load the islamos on board and take off for Yemen.
We take 'er up to Angels 42, and since we know Yemen is an islamic, unfriendly country, we certainly can't land our aircraft there, now can we?
So we begin to circle (at 42K feet) over the ismlamic country of Yemen, looking for an alternate landing site...hmmm...where ever can we set this baby down???
Then, low and behold (drat the luck!), we "suffer" a complete, massive depressurization! All four of the massive cargo doors mysteriously open all at the same time! And all 100+ "returnees" are (most unfortunately) sucked out of our aircraft!!
Within about four minutes or so...all of them will have been returned to Yemen!
Problem solved, case closed, end of story!
Man, you have the idea.
I wasn’t thinking of “explosive” tracking tags,
just some sort of tracking tag so we can study
“terrorist migration patterns”.
Ummm... how about we give them back, but as they are getting off the plane we give them a shot of something that will cause them to kick off in a week or so? :-)
send them all to Iraq for a speedy trial and hanging.
Give each one a 5.56mm pill.
We certainly do.
Something contagious?
No. Biological agents could and would kill innocents, the elderly, women, children. That's what the al-Queda scum would do to us, given the chance. I'd prefer something that just takes the terrorist out.
You sleep with rats, you're gonna wake up with fleas...(and the black death)
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