Bin Laden’s driver may have helped bring about the Beginning of the end for Guantanemo<\/strong>, according to the BBC. <\/a><\/p>\n

Well, this is a closure long overdue, to put it mildly. But the repercussions may take much longer to play themselves out. On the subject of the return of Yemeni citizens to their own countries,<\/p>\n

..the US is concerned about Yemen’s ability to monitor and rehabilitate them.
\nThree of the seven men involved in an attack against the US embassy in Yemen in September were former Guantanamo detainees who had gone through the Yemeni rehabilitation programme. (from the BBC)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hmm. The US government held these people, without trial, in torture conditions for years. I don’t think you can blame the Yemeni government for the ex-prisoners’ desire to harm the US. <\/p>\n

This shows that Gitmo was effectively a terrorism training camp. At the very least, it will have massively boosted the will of former detainees to attack the USA. Beyond this, its very existence has boosted the ideological support for Islamic terrorism, in general<\/p>\n

In the week of the horrific shootings in Mumbai, this seems a particularly stupid strategy. <\/p>\n

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