Yemen does not want its al Qaeda terrorist sent to Saudi Arabia for rehab

Arab News:

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh said yesterday that his country had rejected a US proposal to send 94 Yemeni detainees from the military prison in Guantanamo, Cuba, to Saudi Arabia to be rehabilitated.

“The administration of former US President George W. Bush has contacted us and told us of its plans to extradite the Yemeni detainees to Saudi Arabia, where they could be sent through a rehabilitation program,” Saleh said in a speech during an annual conference for police commanders in Sanaa.

“We rejected the proposal and told them we would build a rehabilitation center where the returnees would be re-educated to shun extremism and fanaticism,” he said.

Saleh said 94 Yemeni Guantanamo detainees were expected to be released and handed over to Yemeni authorities within “60 to 90 days.” He said the center would include a clinic, mosque and a school, and that it would host the returnees and their families.

An official newspaper said on Thursday that the Yemeni government was setting up a center where more than 100 Yemenis are to undergo rehabilitation after their expected release from the Guantanamo Bay prison.

The Defense Ministry’s mouthpiece publication 26 September said the center would be built with US government assistance.

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This is not going to work. The Saudi program has not been nearly as effective as some have suggested. Yemen has been a very ineffective ally in the war on terror where they tend to have a revolving door policy with the terrorist. Instead of spending money on a facility for "rehab" we should buy some more armed UAVs to use when the Yemen government releases these guys.

Think about it. Since the attack on the Cole has Yemen been anything other than a reluctant ally who was uncooperative in a blatant attack on a US ship?

As for that Saudi program, the current leader of al Qaeda in Yemen is a graduate and a recent al Qaeda video shows two more graduates who have returned to the battlefield in Iraq.

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