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Rehabilitation and reintegration of former Gitmo detainees: uncertain, no guarantees

Rehabilitation and reintegration of former Gitmo detainees: uncertain, no guarantees

The debate over whether to close down the US detention facilities in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba involves two basic questions. What happens to terrorist suspects after they leave the detention center at Guantanamo Bay? Can Gitmo’s terrorists be rehabilitated? There have been reports that answer the first question. Many of the former so-called terror [...]
Out of Guantanamo and Back to the Fight

Out of Guantanamo and Back to the Fight

A Pentagon report reveals that one out of every seven prisoners that got detained at the US prisons in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba went back to terrorist activity after being transferred abroad. There had already been 534 former Gitmo detainees that were transferred elsewhere. 74 ex-detainees are said to have re-engaged in terrorism. 29 of these have been [...]