Posted on 06/12/2009 5:26:35 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. officials say three Guantanamo Bay detainees have been sent home to Saudi Arabia.
The Justice Department say the trio will be subject to judicial review in Saudi Arabia before they participate in a rehabilitation program administered by the Saudi government.
With the latest transfer, the U.S. has removed 10 detainees from Guantanamo in the past week, sending four to Bermuda, one to Chad, one to Iraq, and one to face trial in New York City.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
In other words, they’ll be wining and dining with the king and getting a pat on the back?
I am now a eunuch.
June 12, 2009
Note: The following post is a quote:
http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2009/June/09-ag-587.html
United States Transfers Three Guantanamo Detainees to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Three Saudi nationals were transferred today from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia under appropriate security measures.
All individuals transferred to Saudi Arabia are subject to judicial review in Saudi Arabia before they undergo a rehabilitation program. While in a rehabilitation program, they will be under the control of the Saudi Government. The U.S. and Saudi Governments are working closely together on all matters related to the transfer of Saudi detainees from Guantanamo to Saudi Arabia.
As directed by the President’s Jan. 22, 2009, Executive Order, the interagency Guantanamo Review Task Force conducted a comprehensive review of the cases involving Khalid Saad Mohammed, Abdalaziz Kareem Salim Al Noofayaee and Ahmed Zaid Salim Zuhair. As a result of that review, these detainees were approved for transfer from Guantanamo Bay. Each of these detainees was previously cleared for transfer by the prior Administration. The transfers were carried out pursuant to an arrangement between the United States and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
“With these latest transfers, the U.S. Government has moved nine detainees over the course of this week to locations in Bermuda, Chad, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia. This marks the largest number of transfers in a single week in well over a year and occurred, in large part, due to the willingness of foreign governments to work closely with the United States on this important issue and to assist in the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. We are grateful for the cooperation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and for its assistance on the successful transfer of the three individuals today,” said Matthew Olsen, Executive Director of the Guantanamo Review Task Force.
Since 2002, more than 540 detainees have departed Guantanamo for other countries including Albania, Algeria, Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, Bahrain, Belgium, Bermuda, Chad, Denmark, Egypt, France, Great Britain, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Maldives, Mauritania, Morocco, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Sweden, Sudan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Uganda, United Kingdom and Yemen.
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Wow Obama you’re really getting with the program. Five to Bermuda, three to Saudi Arabia what’s that leave 240 to go? How many are you going to release in D.C. and Chicago?
You misunderstand. They need jihadist rehab before they can be allowed to attack again.
They are the poster boys for Epic Fail as suicide bombers.
BAD terrorist!!!
NO VIRGINS!
you left off Detroit and Dearborn...not that they'd be noticed.
“The Justice Department say the trio will be subject to judicial review in Saudi Arabia...”
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Complete with ticker-tape parade in Riyadh and burka-clad virgins and a profuse appology from Washington D.C.
I’d wager they’ve had their last meal of orange chicken...
The List, ping
“All individuals transferred to Saudi Arabia are subject to judicial review in Saudi Arabia before they undergo a rehabilitation program. While in a rehabilitation program, they will be under the control of the Saudi Government.”
The mission of the Saudi “rehabilitation” program seeks to insure that the returned detainees do not again enter into Al Queda type activity ON SAUDI SOIL OR AGAINST THE SAUDI RULERS - PERIOD.
To the Wahabi clerics (who run the Saudi ‘rehabilitation’ program) Bin Laden’s views, hatred and ambitions against “the infidel” are no different than theirs, though the means they may support may not be the same in every context - just the aims.
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