Releasing Gitmo prisoners - recidivism
We have been releasing prisoners from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay. We have been rehabilitating them but not so much.
From
Reuters:
U.S. believes 1 in 5 ex-detainees joining militants
The disclosure comes amid revelations that former Guantanamo detainees had joined al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula -- a Yemen-based group believed to be behind a failed plot to blow up a U.S. passenger jet on Christmas Day.
Under pressure to increase safeguards, President Barack Obama announced on Tuesday that he had suspended the transfer of additional Guantanamo detainees to Yemen, citing the deteriorating security situation in the country.
But Obama said the suspension would not prevent him from closing the prison, which was opened in early 2002 by the Bush administration to house terrorism suspects.
A full 20% go back into the terrorist networks and Obama still thinks that closing Guantanamo is a good idea...
Posted by DaveH at January 7, 2010 11:45 AM