Our "ally" Saudi Arabia arranges a terrorist holiday
I don't know the cases of these guys, so I can't directly comment on any of them, but either they were detained wrongly by the US, or the Saudis are releasing terrorists with a lot of "walking around" money.
Using Iraqi prices, $2600 comes to one AK-47 with some ammo, an RPG, some low level explosives and components to build a couple of IEDs, and just enough left over to pay the smuggler to get you into Iraq.
Again, maybe they're innocent and were wrongly detained by the US, but this seems pretty unbelievable.
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.
Using Iraqi prices, $2600 comes to one AK-47 with some ammo, an RPG, some low level explosives and components to build a couple of IEDs, and just enough left over to pay the smuggler to get you into Iraq.
Again, maybe they're innocent and were wrongly detained by the US, but this seems pretty unbelievable.
posted by mikevotes at
1:31 PM
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the british gitmo detainees were released shortly after being released.
they were considered as innocent.
as far as i know they werent given any money
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Anonymous, at 2:03 PM
That's happened in a number of countries.
But these guys weren't permanently released, they were given kind of a Eid furlough.
They're all supposed to return later to face charges.
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mikevotes, at 3:00 PM
Most Saudis, indeed most muslims, don't see them as terrorists at all.
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Anonymous, at 4:01 PM
Yup.
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mikevotes, at 5:14 PM
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