The Obama administration supports the establishment of a jihad rehabilitation program in Yemen, according to remarks Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made during a town hall in the region. Clinton said the efforts would be modeled after jihad rehabilitation programs in Saudi Arabia supported by the Bush administration, where former detainees from the facility at Guantanamo Bay were sent upon release.
“We used to have a very large number of Saudi detainees and the Saudi government stepped in and created a rehabilitation program that worked with the imams and others to work with the young men and to, in effect, challenge some of their ideas, some of the unfortunate ideas that they had been accepting and it has worked quite well,” she said. “We would certainly be open to something like that here in Yemen.”
