On Saudi television last week, a former Guantanamo detainee named Jabir al Fayfi claimed that he and his fellow Saudi detainees were radicalized during their time in American custody. According to a write-up on alriyadh.com, al Fayfi claimed “that the weakness of religious knowledge among the Saudi prisoners in Guantanamo Bay made them easy prey for the promotion of militant ideas, which were presented to them through lectures, like harming the Kingdom and excommunicating everyone in it.”

Fayfi attributed extremist views to the “Moroccans and Europeans who were imprisoned in the same cells” and said that they radicalized their Saudi brethren. “Al Fayfi claimed that his beliefs were moderate and not militant until he arrived to Guantanamo,” alriyadh.com reports.