The Problem With Clemency At Guantanamo

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Paul Mirengoff at Power Line Blog reported yesterday:

"Thomas Joscelyn reports that former Guantanamo detainee Ibrahim Suleiman al Rubaish has emerged as a leading ideologue and theologian for al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula - one of the strongest al Qaeda affiliates in the world. Rubaish was capture on the front lines at Tora Bora. We held him at Gitmo from late 2001 until December 2006. Then, the government transferred him to Saudi Arabia where he was placed in the Saudi "rehabilitation program" for jihadists. However, Rubaish escaped from Saudi Arabia and fled to Yemen."

I truly think there are some problems with the concept of the Saudi "rehabilitation program" for jihadists. 

Ibrahim Suleiman al Rubaish is now the deputy of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula where part of his job includes providing the theological justifications for the organization's terrorism against the Saudi government.  This is rather amazing since the statement he made to his interrogators at Guantanamo that resulted in his freedom was:

"Before I mentioned that the United States is a partner with Saudi Arabia, so how could I consider it an enemy of Islam if it's a friend of Saudi Arabia?"

How many innocent people have died because we decided that this person was not our enemy in the war on terror? 

It gets worse.  Marc Falkoff, a lawyer for some of the Guantanamo detainees, published a book called Guantanamo: The Detainees Speak.  One of Rubaish's poems was in this book and was described by Attorney Falkoff as "most moving to me and that I find most literary."   Now Mr. Rubaish is free to use his literary talents to convince Muslims to join him in the jihad against the west.

This is one reason that closing Guantanamo is short-sighted and dangerous! 

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