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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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RE: A Clockwork Pomegranate - 3/9/2008 12:14:16 PM

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Hmm. Wouldn't it be better if the Saudis stopped funding the madrassas? Or both?

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RE: A Clockwork Pomegranate - 3/9/2008 12:14:24 PM

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Awesome.

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RE: A Clockwork Pomegranate - 3/9/2008 12:17:00 PM

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Then what happens the day after that?

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RE: A Clockwork Pomegranate - 3/9/2008 12:19:52 PM

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The article says that recidivism rates are very low, although it is true that these aren't hardened long-term terrorists but newer recruits, destined as cannon-fodder in Falluja.

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RE: A Clockwork Pomegranate - 3/9/2008 12:21:45 PM

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hmm..interesting.

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RE: A Clockwork Pomegranate - 3/9/2008 12:22:21 PM

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As an initial response, it would seem so, although we should distinguish between the actions of individuals and the actions of the Government.

I grew up in a London regularly bombed by the Provisional IRA - funded largely by Americans. That action was not official policy either.

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RE: A Clockwork Pomegranate - 3/9/2008 3:09:44 PM

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I grew up in a London regularly bombed by the Provisional IRA - funded largely by Americans. That action was not official policy either.

Funny, it's not popular to remind them of this

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PS: great thread title, incidentally.

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RE: A Clockwork Pomegranate - 3/9/2008 3:52:58 PM

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Ali Saeed al-Ghatani, 17, will head home.........- four months after he was arrested making an attempt to join Iraqi militants fighting American forces.

When I read this bit I thought he was on his way back to West Brom to resume his peaceful life in the local Balti.
Wrong again !

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RE: A Clockwork Pomegranate - 3/9/2008 6:39:34 PM

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