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Arabia
Saudi releases 11 rehabilitated ex-Jihadists
2010-10-14
[Al Arabiya] The Saudi Prince Mohamed bin Nayef Counseling and Care Center released Tuesday 11 of the 16th group of former jihadists after completing the state-sponsored rehabilitation program that aims at reintegrating them into society.
Based on historical data, we should expect at least two of them to fall back into old habits. These days they tend to end up in Yemen instead of Iraq or Afghanistan -- it's safer for jihadis, it's not as far, and they speak the same language.
Media front man of the Prince Mohamed Bin Nayef center announced Tuesday that 11 of the group currently receiving therapy, the sixteenth to attend the rehabilitation program, displayed signs of progress and proved that they benefited from the training courses offered at the center.

According to the front man, several of the 11 performed the pilgrimage ritual as part of the several services offered by the center to the trainees and their families.

Two of them were enrolled in Imam Mohamed bin Saud University and three were registered in an advanced computer course at the Community Service Center, affiliated to King Saud University.

After their release, the former Jihadists are scheduled to attend additional programs that prepare them psychologically and socially to the new life they are about to start.

The center was initiated by Prince Mohamed bin Nayef, deputy interior minister for security affairs, with the aim of rehabilitating Saudi citizens who fell prey to turban ideas, commonly known as "deviant thought", and engaged in terrorist activities.
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