Stop Releases from GITMO

US offering $5-million reward for terrorist it released from Gitmo Tuesday, December 23, 2014

A terrorist formerly held at the prison camp in Guantánamo who was released to Saudi Arabia in 2006 has a bounty of $5 million on his head for taking part in terrorist activities.

Ibrahim al-Rubaysh was repatriated back to Saudi Arabia, who enrolled him in their "rehabilitation" program.  It apparently didn't work.

Judicial Watch:

Now we learn that the U.S. government is secretly admitting that it erred in at least one case, the release of a Saudi national named Ibrahim al-Rubaysh. In late 2006 the Bush administration repatriated him back home under a Saudi Arabian “rehabilitation” program that supposedly reformed Guantanamo Bay jihadists but instead has served as a training camp for future terrorists. In fact, in 2008 counterterrorism officials confirmed that many of the terrorists who return to “the fight” after being released from U.S. custody actually graduated from the laughable Saudi rehab program, which started under Bush and continued under Obama.

It turns out that al-Rubaysh is the poster child for the Saudi rehab’s failures. He’s a dangerous Al Qaeda operative based in Yemen and now, years after freeing him, the United States wants him captured. This month the State Department coined the “senior leader” of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. “He serves as a senior advisor for AQAP operational planning and is involved in the planning of attacks,” a State Department announcement says. “He has served as a senior AQAP sharia official since 2013, and as a senior AQAP sharia official, al-Rubaysh provides the justification for attacks conducted by AQAP.  In addition, he has made public statements, including one in August 2014 where he called on Muslims to wage war against the United States.”

The U.S. government has also offered a $5 million reward for information that could lead to al-Rubaysh’s capture. The prize is part of a $45 million pot offered by the State Department’s Rewards for Justice Program involving eight key AQAP leaders, among them al-Rubaysh. Information on some of al-Rubaysh’s buddies could net informants $10 million, but he’s only worth half that, according to the U.S. government. The bottom line remains; The U.S. had him and let him go. Now it’s offering a chunk of change for his capture. Uncle Sam has paid out over $125 million to more than 80 people who provided actionable information that put terrorists behind bars or prevented acts of international terrorism worldwide. The reward program appears to be the government’s best hope of capturing this terrorist it once held.

By 2006, President Bush was under tremendous pressure to release Gitmo prisoners, both domestically and internationally.  The Saudi rehab program looked like a godsend at the time.  The program relied on intense religious instruction as well as socialization with non-terrorists.

The Saudis aren't coming clean on what the recidivism rate from the rehab program is.  It's probably higher than the official statements.  But the release of even one terrorist who goes back to the fight is a victory for al-Qaeda.

Source:http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/12/us_offering_5_million_reward_for_terrorist_it_released_from_gitmo.html

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