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RealityLicks -> A Clockwork Pomegranate (3/9/2008 12:11:23 PM)
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Tomorrow a young man in traditional white robe and headdress will walk out through the iron gates of an anonymous low-rise compound down a gravel lane behind a Lebanese restaurant, 30 minutes' drive from the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh.
Ali Saeed al-Ghatani, 17, will head home to the resort town of Abha - four months after he was arrested making an attempt to join Iraqi militants fighting American forces. His incarceration may have been brief, but it will have been long enough for him to realise he had 'taken the wrong path'. 'I was angry and I was seeking adventure,' he said. 'Now all I want is to study and get married.'
The Saudi government is spending millions on the rehabilitation of former jihadists, as are other Muslim countries.
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