The execution chamber at the Utah State Prison after Ronnie Lee Gardner was executed by firing squad Friday, June 18, 2010. Four bullet holes are visiblein the wood panel behind the chair.
Posted on 06/19/2010 10:30:28 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
Twenty percent of ex-Guantanamo prisoners who graduated from Saudi Arabia's rehabilitation programme resumed contacts with Islamist militants, a senior Saudi counter-terror official said on Saturday.
Twenty-five of the 120 former detainees at the US "war-on-terror" prison returned to radical Islamist activities after graduation from Riyadh's lauded rehab centre, Abdulrahman al-Hadlaq, who has the post of director of ideological security at the interior ministry, told reporters.
"It's about a 9.5-percent relapse" for all 300 Saudi men, including militants arrested by Saudi authorities, who have passed through the "Care Centre," Hadlaq said.
"But it's more than 20 (percent) among Guantanamo guys."
Of those, 10 or 11 are believed reunited with Al-Qaeda in Yemen, four have been killed in anti-Qaeda operations, and the others have been rearrested and jailed, according to interior ministry spokesman General Mansour al-Turki.
The officials blamed most of the recidivism on a close-knit group of more than 10 Guantanamo inmates repatriated to Saudi Arabia on November 9, 2007.
"They created the whole (problem)" said Turki. "Of course they infected a number of previously freed Guantanamo detainees."
There are currently three former Guantanamo detainees in the programme.
The US continues to hold 13 more Saudis at the US navy facility in Cuba and has not yet granted Riyadh's request to return them to their home country.
Hadlaq said the government was still planning to expand the Care programme with new facilities in five cities, with an eye to rehabilitating some of the more than 2,000 Saudis currently imprisoned on charges linked to Al-Qaeda and other Islamic militant activities.
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I’m amazed that the recidivism rate is that low...which makes me wonder about the credibility of those numbers.
does seem very low
Dang. I’ve seen better shot placement, unless this guy was fatter than a Hippo at Dunkin Donuts.
Then again I have to consider the source...
The shots came from separate directions, shooters in a line. It’s possible that all four crossed in his heart.
I’ll add that they taught me in EMT class that the position of an exit wound has no necessary relationship to the position of an entry wound, i.e., bullets bounce.
I agree
Try 99.20 percent.
I’ll bet the real rate is about 95%...
The firing squad was four strong, and one of the bullets was supposed to be wax, yet I see four bullet holes in the panel behind were the prisoner was...
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