Move America Forward, the nation's largest grassroots pro-troop organization, has learned that two of the four co-conspirators who helped Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had actually been detained by the U.S. at Guantanamo Bay and released in 2007 to Saudi Arabia where they underwent a Saudi "rehabilitation" program designed to cure them of their radical ideology.
"We have warned about these supposed rehabilitation programs before, it is well documented that other former graduates of the Saudi program promptly returned to their terrorist ways after being released," said Danny Gonzalez, Director of Communications for the pro-troop group.
"With this latest news we now have further evidence that these programs do not work and as soon as the supposedly cured terrorists gain their freedom they go back to Al Qaeda and plot attacks or return to the battlefield. Our troops should not be having to deal with the same terrorist twice. These people were released in 2007 but we know that the Obama administration has been sending more detainees to Saudi Arabia to go through this program and plan to continue using it in future, so we are calling on Obama to immediately stop senidng these terrorists back overseas where they arent properly monitored and start taking his job of keeping America safe seriously."
