Report: Saudi (Former) Gitmo Detainees Get Gift

[RamboLiberal]

Source: breitbart.com

The Saudi Arabian government will temporarily release 55 prisoners recently transferred from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and will give each of them about $2,600 to celebrate the upcoming Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, a newspaper reported Saturday.

Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz granted the temporary releases from detention centers in Saudi Arabia so the prisoners could spend time with their families during the holiday in mid-October, the Okaz newspaper reported.

They will return to police custody after the holiday and will be referred to Saudi courts at end of this month for upcoming trials, the paper said.

U.S. authorities transferred 16 Saudis from Guantanamo Bay back to Saudi Arabia in September, the latest transfer of prisoners from the U.S. detention facility. Fewer than 40 Saudi detainees remain in detention.



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Wonder what guarantee there is that they will return to prison?

[Fridays Child]

1. They have their methods, I'm quite sure.

[MidwestTransplant]

2. It doesn't seem like they have it too rough there.

[hlthe2b]

3. Perhaps that is the point.... Just maybe the Saudis don't want

to try them... hmmmmm....:shrug:

[ooglymoogly]

4. Are you kidding me...$2600 for years of torture and degradation

in which the Saudi's were complicit.
Gee 50 some odd thousand, do you think the Saudis can afford it.
wow and golly gee. Such kindness it makes me sick. Its like the mafia giving a tin medal to a cohort who took the fall and spent years in a rat infested torturous hole.

[Heywood J]

5. Oh yeah

Who wants to bet they'll show up as scuffed-up war-torn-looking refugees at an Iraqi airport in two months with new identities, looking to get a flight out somewhere obscure? Of course, no Iraqi militiamen would have grudges against the US such that they'd aid these men in escaping...