But now there may be 4 ex-Guantanamo Bay detainees who have rejoined extremist Al Qaeda terrorist ranks:
"Two Saudis formerly jailed at the US prison camp in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, have joined Al Qaeda's Yemeni branch, and authorities here worry that two other ex-Guantánamo inmates may have strayed back to militancy because they have recently disappeared from their homes. The revelations illustrate the difficulties faced both by President Obama, who has pledged to shutter the facility for terror suspects, and the Saudi government, which is trying to reform its own radical jihadis, many of whom were imprisoned at Guantánamo before being released back to the kingdom."
Now liberal acquaintances of mine, when faced with this kind of news, have tried to retort that simply being held and--supposedly--tortured at Gitmo drove people like this back to terrorist ranks. (hey, it's gotta be Bush's fault to these folks). But check out the article to which I linked. There's no evidence being held at Guantanamo drove them to anything. Rather, they were influenced by recent terrorist attacks and by the resurgence of Al Qaeda in Yemen. When these guys were held at Gitmo, they couldn't do us any harm.
Now they can. Conservatives need to keep making that point.
