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The debate over the wisdom of closing the Guantanamo Bay detention center continues apace. Thursday, Jan Crawford Greenburg covered criticisms of the closure on ABC's A Closer Look while CBS' David Martin outlined the negatives of its opening in the first place. Now ABC's Brian Ross brings us footage of a Saudi Arabian "terror rehab" clinic in a "former royal family retreat outside Riyadh." Released Guantanamo inmates receive religious re-education and government incentives--a new home and a car--if they commit themselves to renouncing terrorist tactics. Ross mocked the rehab for including art therapy using "crayons and paper." From the Pentagon, NBC's Jim Miklaszewski cited statistics that seven out of every eight inmates released from Guantanamo Bay to date have decided to reject al-Qaeda--which means that 61 of the 525 are militants to this day. Exhibit A among those 61 is Said Ali al-Shihri, who is believed to have organized the bombing of the United States Embassy in Yemen in September 2008. The time spent at Guantanamo Bay, Miklaszewski explained, elevates former inmates "to hero status with al-Qaeda."
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