Flashback: Bush Administration Sent Gitmo Detainees to Saudi Counseling Center

[sabra]

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/06/bush-assails-those-who-offer-terrorists-therapy-though-his-administration-sent-detainees-to-saudi-co.html

Bush Assails Those Who Offer Terrorists 'Therapy' -- Though His Administration Sent Detainees to Saudi Counseling Center

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Refraining from directly criticizing President Obama, Mr. Bush said, "I'll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don't believe that persuasion isn't going to work. Therapy isn't going to cause terrorists to change their mind."

Interestingly, it was the Bush administration that sent some Gitmo detainees to a Saudi jihadi rehabilitation camp -- called the "Prince Mohammed bin Nayef Centre for Care and Counseling."

To decidedly mixed success.

Earlier this year the Saudi government published a list of 85 wanted terrorism suspects. Eleven of them had been prisoners at Guantanamo put through the Saudi rehabilitation program.

Said Ali al-Shihri, transferred to Saudi Arabia from Guantanamo during the Bush administration in 2007, is currently the deputy leader of al Qaeda's Yemen branch.

The Bush administration also released Gitmo detainee Ghulam Rasoul into the Saudi rehabilitation program. Now known as Mullah Abdullah Zakir, he's a leader against U.S. forces in southern Afghanistan, according to military and intelligence officials.

[KansDem]

1. Bush is such a shithead...

I'll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that<sic> will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don't believe that persuasion isn't going to work. Therapy isn't going to cause terrorists to change their mind. --So let's send them to a country who will kill American people "at the drop of a hat." Bush's pals and business partners: the Saudis.


Mmmmmm-mm-mmmm-mmm-mmmmm? ("Will you kill American people at the drop of a hat?"
Mmm-mmmmm-mm-mmmmmm! ("You bet, George! Anything for the New World Order!")

[SammyWinstonJack]

3. What a moron.

I don't believe that persuasion isn't going to work. So he believes it will work? Which is it george?


Dumb as ever. :dunce:

[MADem]

2. Isn't he stupid!!!

"I don't believe that persuasion isn't going to work..."

So then, he's telling us that persuasion will work!