Ex-Guantanamo inmates 'fail rehab'
The much-lauded and criticised Saudi rehab process has re-appeared after a rare official statement:
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About 25 former Guantanamo Bay detainees have returned to violence after going through a rehabilitation programme in Saudi Arabia, a senior Saudi official has said.
Abdulrahman al-Hadlaq, the director of the interior ministry's ideological security administration, said on Saturday that about 20 per cent of the 120 repatriated former prisoners have returned to radical activity after graduation from a rehab centre in Riyadh, the Saudi capital.
More on the link:http://english.aljazeera.net/news/mi...047249951.html or Reuters: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65I22220100619
Hat Tip to The Legal War on Terror Weekly Brief.
From Rehabilitation to Recruitment
Hat tip to a Canadian helper.
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute has released a new report entitled ‘From Rehabilitation to Recruitment’, an in-depth look at the problem of prison radicalization – the recruitment and indoctrination of future terrorists within prison populations by fellow inmates. While Canada’s problem with prison radicalization is still limited in comparison to other countries, author Alex Wilner argues that now is the time to stop this phenomenon in Canada before it starts, and offers a number of recommendations for preventative action.
Link:http://www.macdonaldlaurier.ca/files...ecruitment.pdf
Canadian report (just prisons)
This Canadian parliamentary report has some depth - in the variety of witnesses heard - and the testimony of Professor Andrew Silke (UK) on the effect of prison is important:http://parl.gc.ca/40/3/parlbus/commb...df/09issue.pdf
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Perhaps another surprising observation is that in the U.K. we have had over 400 al Qaeda-linked extremists convicted of terrorism-related offences since 2001. Approximately 300 of these people have been released already, and many have received relatively short sentences. Most of these people are on the streets in the U.K. One finding is that there does not seem to be any evidence of these people re-engaging in extremism or becoming involved in violence again. The re-conviction rate or the re-offending rate of these individuals is extremely low. It has surprised many people who assumed that if someone was radicalized, chiefly engaged in violence and had spent time in
prison, they would still be dangerous when they came out. From most of them we see that prison represents a transition period where they move on to other issues and away from violence.
Link to report:http://www.parl.gc.ca/40/3/parlbus/c...p03mar11-e.pdf
Lessons from Saudi Arabia
Spotted in an ICSR report on the Yemen:
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At its core are 100 veteran jihadists, who escaped local prisons in 2006 and 2011. The group also counts on 11 former Guantanamo detainees, who returned to terrorism after undergoing "rehabilitation" programs in Saudi Arabia.
See main post (No. 57), with full copy of the ICSR report:http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...t=12784&page=3
After Assassinations, Basque Killers Explain
A rare insight into how Spain is accommodating it's violent past, now that the Basque separatist ETA has declared a ceasefire and the brave people on either side:http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/16/wo...&smid=tw-share
Canada's growing problem: rehabilitation
A thoughtful article, from a country with very few convicted terrorism prisoners and if Canada is struggling with a plan and implementation, how will others fare?
Link:http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/11...bilitate-them/
Fighting terrorism: Do 'deradicalisation' camps really work?
A long comprehensive article by Jason Burke of The Guardian, which assembles information from around the globe and tries give an answer to this:
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The problem, however, is that nobody knows if they actually work.
Link:http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013...on-camps-work?
That the Pakistani police have such a programme I don't recall before. One thing is for sure:
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Equally, success in many places, such as Singapore, may be as much to do with 24/7 surveillance of the released militants as anything else, experts say.
I am sure a week ago I read elsewhere that the Yemen is copying the Saudi model for returning GITMO prisoners; since the Saudis now admit a 20% recidivism rate one wonders if the Yemen will ever admit theirs.
There is an existing thread on 'Terrorist Prisoners and Deradicalization':http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...ead.php?t=5219 and the wider 'Studies on radicalisation & comments':http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...ead.php?t=7188
Are French prisons ‘finishing schools’ for terrorism?
A good 'Long read' in The Guardian on a topical subject:http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...-for-terrorism
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