Posted on 02/16/2010 9:22:01 AM PST by Red in Blue PA
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — To American officers at Guantanamo Bay, Ahmed Zaid Salem Zuhair was inmate No. 669 — a hardcore, veteran Muslim terrorist suspected of having killed an American in Bosnia. But here in Saudi Arabia, he is a "beneficiary," a former religious deviant who, having learned the true meaning of Islam, has been rehabilitated.
Repatriated from Guantanamo in mid-2009, Zuhair, 45, continued to proclaim his innocence in an interview, asserting that he had only been doing peaceful relief work in Bosnia and Pakistan prior to his arrest in 2002, when Pakistani officials robbed, tortured and "sold" him to the Americans, he said in halting English. But Saudi Arabia's rehabilitation program had taught him that good Muslims "should not put ourselves in suspicious places or situations," he said. When he is released, he said, he would ensure that none of his 10 children by three wives would do what he had done.
Saudi officials said last week that if all goes according to plan, Zuhair may soon join the ranks of 302 of some 4,200 Saudis imprisoned on terrorism charges who have been released in the past two years under a controversial Saudi program that aims to transform would-be and even hardened "jihadists" into peaceful, law-abiding, God-fearing Saudis.
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...a controversial Saudi program that aims to transform would-be and even hardened "jihadists" into peaceful, law-abiding, God-fearing Saudis.
Cue Bill Cosby.
What could possibly go wrong?
At least we know recidivism is only 20%/sarc
Of course, his full rehabilitation will depend on his willingness to participate in a ritual beheading in the Public Square.
This looks like a refinement of good cop/bad cop.
Looks like PR designed to show a newer more responsible
Saudi Arabia. Even MORE responsible NOW , now that they’re taking the initiative in keeping would-be terrorists ‘away’ from the West.
So, he's not a muzzlim anymore?
A rehabilitated terrorist?
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