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In what is being touted as 'jihadi rehab,' al Qaeda terrorists newly released from Guantanamo prison or caught on the streets of Iraq before their suicide bombs could explode are putting finger paints and crayons to paper in order to secure their freedom. The Saudi government, which is running ...
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Shocker: Released Guantanamo Detainee Now The Head Of Yemen Al Qaeda Cell
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Yesterday Obama signed an executive order to close down the terrorist detention facility at Guantanamo Bay (despite never having actually, you know, visited the facility). Today we learn that a detainee released from Gitmo in 2007 is now the head of an al Qaeda cell in Yemen:
A U.S. counterterror official confirmed yesterday that Said Ali al-Shihri, who was released in 2007 after six years at Guantanamo, has resurfaced as a leader of a Yemeni branch of al-Qaida.
A reference to al-Shihri has shown up twice this week on a militant-leaning Web site. An announcement yesterday also included a video of a ...
Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/24/2009
Gates of Vienna —
... Saudi: Trading Bombs for Crayons: Terrorists Get ‘Art Therapy’ In what is being touted as ‘jihadi rehab,’ al Qaeda terrorists newly released from Guantanamo prison or caught on the streets of Iraq before their suicide bombs could explode are putting finger paints and crayons to paper in order to secure their freedom. The Saudi government, which is running the rehabilitation program on a former royal family retreat outside Riyadh, claims that some 700 former al Qaeda terrorists have been reprogrammed. ...
11 ex-Gitmo prisoners flee the Saudi "rehabilitation program" and join up with terrorist groups
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Not enough to sate jihadi impulses
Apparently PlayStations and finger-paints are not enough to change the minds of terrorists concerning the jihad. Thus, even if it were true that "jihad" really means "being a better student, a better colleague, a better business partner. Above all, to control one's anger" -- this story indicates that we can at least rule out trying to redirect the jihad from targeting infidels to, say, "Jihad-of-the -Nintendo" or the "Crayon Jihad."
"11 ex-Gitmo prisoners on Saudi wanted list," from UPI, February ...
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