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eHarmony: Latest Front in GWOT

Gabe Rottman,
Legislative Counsel,
ACLU Washington Legislative Office
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April 30, 2007

Let me just lead with the pull quote from McClatchy's Washington Bureau. This is money:

Alarmed to find that detainees are emerging from the Guantanamo Bay prison camp and other U.S. detention centers more devoted than ever to radical Islam, Saudi Arabia is offering counseling, financial aid and even matchmaking to pull young militants away from terrorism.To keep the former detainees from deep-pocketed militant recruiters, Saudi officials have treated them to perks that have included new cars, resort stays, job placement and help in finding brides. They've also exposed them to moderate clerics and reminded them of Islam's restrictive rules for waging holy war, or jihad.Saudi officials said the goal is to stop the proliferation of radical ideology that they said is bred in prisons and on the Internet. The ideology has flourished at Guantanamo and is evident among the returning Saudi detainees - even those who were moderates before they were imprisoned, Saudi officials said."When you associate with those guys, you become one of them," said Mansour al Turki, the Saudi government's security spokesman.

First, didn't I, like, just make this point? And, second, isn't that, like, really scary?

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