Gitmo prisoner reveals Saudi “deradicalization” centers being used to recruit & train jihadists

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Obama is releasing Gitmo jihadis to these “deradicalization” centers…..

The whole premise of “deradicalization” is false. Nowhere do these programs — whether in Saudi Arabia or Europe or the US — actually address the motive behind this war. Islam. Radicalization is a euphemism for religious Muslim, devout Muslim.

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Saudi rehab centre used to recruit & train jihadists – Gitmo prisoner

RT, 30 Nov 2016
Saudi Arabia is using one of its ‘terrorist rehab’ centres to recruit and train jihadists, according to testimony from a prisoner at Guantanamo. A former Al-Qaeda member of Saudi origin, he made the claim to the prison’s parole board when explaining his refusal to enroll in Riyadh’s de-radicalization programme.

Gitmo prisoner reveals that Saudi ‘terrorist rehab’ center is a scam

By Paul Sperry, NY Post, November 28, 2016 (thanks to Aron):

Counterterrorism experts have long suspected Saudi Arabia’s “rehabilitation” center for terrorists does a poor job of de-radicalizing jihadists. But a Saudi detainee at Guantanamo Bay now reveals it’s actually a recruiting and training factory for jihad.

According to recently declassified documents, senior al Qaeda operative Ghassan Abdullah al-Sharbi told a Gitmo parole board that the Saudi government has been encouraging previously released prisoners to rejoin the jihad at its terrorist reform school, officially known as the Prince Mohammed bin Naif Counseling and Care Center.

The Obama administration has praised the effectiveness of the Saudi rehab program — which uses “art therapy,” swimming, ping-pong, PlayStation and soccer to de-radicalize terrorists — and conditioned the release of dozens of Gitmo prisoners, including former Osama bin Laden bodyguards, on their enrollment in the controversial program.

To date, 134 Saudi detainees have been transferred to the Saudi reform camps in Riyadh and Jeddah. Last year, nine Yemeni detainees were sent there, as well, and more are expected to follow over the next two months, as President Obama strives to meet his campaign goal of closing Gitmo.

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Al-Sharbi dropped a bombshell on the Gitmo parole board at his hearing earlier this year when he informed members that the Saudi kingdom was playing them for suckers. “You guys want to send me back to Saudi Arabia because you believe there is a de-radicalization program on the surface.

“True. You are 100 percent right, there is a strong — externally, a strong — de-radicalization program. But make no mistake, underneath there is a hidden radicalization program,” al-Sharbi added. “There is a very hidden strong — way stronger in magnitude — broader in financing, in all that.”

Al-Sharbi is one of the longest-serving, and most unrepentant, prisoners at Gitmo. A Saudi national with an electrical engineering degree from King Fahd University, he attended a US flight school associated with two of the 9/11 hijackers. He traveled to Afghanistan in the summer of 2001 and trained at an al Qaeda camp, building IEDs to use against allied forces.

Al-Sharbi was captured March 28, 2002, at an al Qaeda safehouse in Faisalabad, Pakistan, with senior al Qaeda leader Abu Zubaydah. According to his US intel dossier, he told interrogators that “the US got what it deserved from the terrorist attacks on 9/11.”

Given a chance at parole after 14 years, however, al-Sharbi was surprisingly frank with the board.

He explained that Riyadh is actively recruiting and training fighters to battle Iranian elements in neighboring Yemen and Syria. Saudi views Shiite-controlled Iran as a regional threat to its security.

“They’re launching more wars and the [United] States is backing off from the region,” he said. “They’re poking their nose here and here and there and they’re recruiting more jihadists, and they’ll tell you, ‘Okay, go fight in Yemen. Go fight in Syria.’ ”

Al-Sharbi said the Saudis also are “encouraging” former detainees “to fight their jihad in the States.”

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“It’s not like a past history,” he said. “It’s increasing.”

A growing body of evidence backs up his claims. Last month, for example, a WikiLeaked email from Hillary Clinton revealed, citing US intelligence sources, that Saudi Arabia has provided “clandestine financial and logistic support to” ISIS and other Sunni terrorist groups in the region.

Al-Sharbi said the kingdom is playing a double game.

“They will proudly tell you they will fight terrorism,” he said. “That means they will support it.”

Al-Sharbi told the Gitmo board he doesn’t want to enroll in the Saudi rehab program, because he would be used to “fight under the Saudi royal cloak.”

“This is in the cause of a king. This is not a true jihad,” he said. “And I’m not going to Saudi unless I am sure they’re not gonna be using me.”

The Saudi rehab ruse has carried a lot of weight with the Gitmo parole board. Earlier this year, it released “Saudi al Qaeda recruiter and fighter” Muhammed Al Shumrani after his lawyers insisted that repatriating him to Saudi Arabia and enrolling him in its “well-established reintegration program” would cure his admittedly “problematic behavior.”

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Last year, the defense team of longtime bin Laden bodyguard Abdul Rahman Shalabi insisted that the same Saudi rehab program would make sure he’s reformed. In approving his release, the board said that it was “confident about the efficacy of the Saudi program.”

In both cases, US intelligence warned the board that the hardened terrorists would more than likely “re-engage in terrorist activity.”

By Riyadh’s own numbers, some 20 percent of the terrorist enrollees at its rehab club — which features golf carts, palm trees and an Olympic-size pool — go back to the jihad, returning to the ranks of the Taliban or al Qaeda. US officials believe the recidivism rate is much higher, but Saudi Arabia does not disclose criteria for evaluation.

One high-profile failure was Said Ali al-Shihri. After his graduation from the Saudi program, he returned to Yemen, where he ran an al Qaeda branch and helped plan the deadly bombing of the US Embassy and mastermind the failed plot to blow up a 2009 Christmas flight over Detroit, before a drone-fired missile finally caught up to him.

The Saudi center is more holiday resort than halfway house for paroled inmates. Jihadists are rewarded with gourmet meals, video games, ping-pong, jacuzzis and newly furnished private apartments reserved for conjugal visits. They also are allowed unescorted visits to family members. In September, the center granted “beneficiaries” Eid al-Adha holiday vacation for 12 days.

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Graduates are further rewarded with young brides and new cars.

Lending credence to al-Sharbi’s charges, the three-month program includes a few hours a day of lessons in Islam from Saudi clerics and “Shariah specialists.”

“Beneficiaries spend 15 hours a week in the Shariah program,” according to a local Jeddah press report, which is triple the amount of time devoted to psychological counseling.

Al-Sharbi’s parole was declined; he is still in Gitmo, along with 60 detainees — down from the 241 who were there when Obama started his term.

But with the administration rushing to reduce that number even further before the end of Obama’s term, how many more jihadists will be released into this highly suspect program?

Congress has an obligation to ask hard questions: Is this a pre-emptive campaign to prevent terror attacks or more likely an incubator for facilitating more attacks?

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particolor
particolor
7 years ago

WHY DOESNT THIS SURPRISE US !! 🙁 🙁 🙁

Dean
Dean
7 years ago

This is SHOCKING. Who would ever suspect that fundamental Muslims would not actually de-radicalize a Muslim fundamentalist?

Steve
Steve
7 years ago
Reply to  Dean

What better way to debrief the troops, uh enemy, and feign all is well.

Dommy
Dommy
7 years ago

In other news, a local pest exterminator decided to stop killing cockroaches and try a different approach. Convinced they are just misunderstood creatures who will behave better if shown kindness, he gathers them together for a friendly lecture and free food.

Result: Roaches are breeding like crazy and overrunning everything.

Dean
Dean
7 years ago
Reply to  Dommy

Better yet, they teach the cockroaches how not to get caught by the infidel pest exterminators next time.

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soundclick.com/Globalfirm
7 years ago

Not just Saudi Arabia arms Islamic slaver state, the U.S.-army did it too & Bush let twin-tower attack complicit Saudi officials fly out.
We have to make prosecutions.
If those detainees can’t be released to the U.S. they also shouldn’t be released to the middle-east.
Saudi Arabia should be made an English language protectorate.
That’s why the truth about sadist, racist slaver tyrant, inventor of slavery of Africans, mass-murderer, crucifier, genital mutilationist, clitodirectomist, child-rapist & pederast, theist psychopath Muhammad is being held from the public: to keep the population superficial & in a state of unknowingness about the Muhammadism-conspiracy & Saudi Arabia. They train people to be superficial, lacking profoundness & theist. You can see it in their mainstream-media, the music, the news. All superficial aimed to make the people semi-complicit slaves of the Muhammadism-conspiracy, to force people into idealization of sadist, racist slaver tyrant, inventor of slavery of Africans, mass-murderer, crucifier, genital mutilationist, clitodirectomist, child-rapist & pederast, theist psychopath Muhammad.
De-radicalization centre means they want to stop the suppression of radicalism of the Muhammadism-conspiracy.
Ban Islam, save lives!
It’s like the counter-terror efforts are used to keep the public dumb about the Muhammadism-conspiracy to facilitate Muhammadism-conspiracy imperialism & the financing dependence on Saudi & Islamic slaver State oil.
Those Centers might be upheld with the slave-work of enslaved Africans after sadist racist slaver Muhammad’s example.
Ban the Muhammadism-conspiracy, save lives & profound human rights.

Did you know: There’s slavery today of Africans in Saudi Arabia, Mauritania(25%,50%?of population), new north Sudan, Kuwait, Bahrain, Yemen, Oman, Algeria, Lebanon, Qatar (?), Pakistan, UAE, Niger, Libya, Nigeria, Chad, Mali, Somalia & elsewhere inspired by sadist, racist slaver tyrant, inventor of slavery of Africans, mass-murderer, crucifier, theist psychopath, genital mutilationist, clitodirectomist, child-rapist & pederast, Muhammad who owned Africans as slaves & said that his deity turned Africans black, so their descendants would be slaves to Arabs & Turks (Abeed means African & slave in Arabic,) (Read more about sadist, racist slaver Muhammad at WikiIslam). & IslamicState stated they want to revive enslavement of Africans in America as I’ve read here.
Anti-African racists & Muhammadism Out of Africa!
Ban the Muhammadism-conspiracy & democracy, save profound human rights!
Help me to win the next election with my worldwide low-budget-campaign, for human rights & ecology, globally.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
7 years ago

Ever notice that the driving force behind scams like this and charities that “sponsor” terrorist refugees into the US is government giveaway programs? And how do you separate jihadis from the very ideology that inspires them? The simple truthful answer is, you don’t. The best “deradicalization” program known is called a firing squad.

Memri Dotorg
Memri Dotorg
7 years ago

Prince Mohammed bin Naif Counseling and Care Center….. The Obama intelligence bungled the actual Arabic translation in their original communique, the correct translation is Prince Mohammed bin Naif Munitions Counseling and Sword Sharpening Center.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
7 years ago

The democrat administration is constantly suckered in by islam, because the imam of the white house arranges for it.

AlgorithmicAnalystD
AlgorithmicAnalyst
7 years ago

Thieves, liars, terrorists.

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AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
7 years ago

WAKE UP PEOPLE,… or lose your head !!!
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joe1429
joe1429
7 years ago

Support FIDF friends of israeli defense forces

InfidelCrusader
InfidelCrusader
7 years ago

This goes a long way towards explaining why these “de-radicalization” efforts have been so spectacularly unsuccessful. They would seem to be little more than Islamic deception of the infidels. They smile to our faces and try to slit our throats once we turn our backs.

karl59
karl59
7 years ago

This is the equivalent of putting a fox in a hen house.

Guest
Guest
7 years ago

One can not deradicalize a rattlesnake…one must kill the rattlesnakes then it is de-radicalized….

joe1429
joe1429
7 years ago

What a joke. And 100% odousche, who has all the top info, knew it was going on, and still released them. This mf should be tried for treason by the trump admin

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