Saudi Rehabilitation

Can Utilizing Knowledge of Cults Help Us with Terrorist Groups?

Steven Hassan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Brainwashing, Interrogation Techniques, Inoculation, Cults, Terrorism, Mind Control, Deprogramming, Saudi Rehabilitation, Cult Counseling, Al Qaeda, Politics News
Steven Hassan

We will continue to see radical Islamist terror groups recruiting on our own soil if we don't equip children, parents and teachers with the tools to combat the phenomenon of cultism.

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Rehabilitating Al Qaeda: Saudi Arabia, Mauritania, and Yemen

Alex Thurston | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yemen, Al Qaeda, Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, Counterterrorism, Guantanamo Bay, Saudi Rehabilitation, Sana'A, Salafists, Said Ali Al-Shihri, World News
Alex Thurston

How do Arab governments deal with Al Qaeda? Americans should pay attention to Arab counterterrorism strategies, because outcomes there will play a large role in shaping Al Qaeda's trajectory.

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75 Guantanamo Prisoners Cleared for Release; 31 Could Leave Today

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: President Obama, Guantanamo, Alla Ali Bin Ali Ahmed, World News, Dick Cheney, Habeas Corpus, Politics News, US House of Representatives, Robert Gates, Fouad Al-Rabiah, Saudi Arabia, US Senate, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Judge Emmet G. Sullivan, Kuwait, Judge Gladys Kessler, Closing Guantanamo, Yemen, World, Guantanamo Detainees, Greg Craig, Guantanamo Task Force, Saudi Rehabilitation, Yemeni Detainees Guantanamo, Ayman Batarfi, US District Court, Justice Department, Barack Obama, Uighurs, Guantanamo Uighurs, U.S. Court of Appeals, Politics News
Andy Worthington

If the rationale for not releasing the Yemenis from Guantánamo was extended to the U.S. prison system, no prisoner would ever be released at the end of their sentence, because prison "might have radicalized" them.

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Guantanamo As Hotel California: You Can Check Out Any Time You Like, But You Can Never Leave

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Department of Defense, War on Terror, President Obama, Guantanamo, Fbi, Binyam Mohamed, Alla Ali Bin Ali Ahmed, Detention Policy Task Force, World News, Habeas Corpus, Obama Detention Policy, Politics News, Sabir Lahmar, Umar Abdulayev, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Abdul Rahim Al-Ginco, Judge Gladys Kessler, Pentagon, Yemen, World, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Saudi Rehabilitation, Ayman Batarfi, Justice Department, US District Court, Barack Obama, Guantanamo Uighurs, Yasim Basardah, Cia, Torture, Politics News
Andy Worthington

Prisoners who do not face ill-treatment on return to their homelands are still held, no matter how many times their release is approved by various representatives of the U.S. government.

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Forgotten: The Second Anniversary of a Guantanamo Suicide

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yemen, World, War on Terror, Terrorism, President Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Saudi Rehabilitation, Abdul Rahman Al-Amri, Taliban, Barack Obama, World News, Dick Cheney, Al Qaeda, Politics, Robert Gates, Saudi Arabia, Guantanamo Bay, Breaking Politics News, Guantanamo Suicides, The Guantanamo Files, Closing Guantanamo, World News
Andy Worthington

Today, unnoticed in the Western media (although I can't vouch for the Arabic world) is the second anniversary of the death at Guantánamo -- apparently by suicide -- of Abdul Rahman al-Amri.

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