A senior official at the Ministry of Interior said Wednesday that Saudi authorities would not impose any security restrictions on Guantanamo Bay returnees who have integrated back into the society and have proved to be good citizens. The release of the Guantanamo returnees from the rehabilitation program has followed the completion of regulatory and legal procedures, the official said. The statement came in the wake of the return of two Saudi former detainees of Guantanamo to Al-Qaeda terror network branch in Yemen after going through Ministry of Interior's rehabilitation program. The official said law abidance is the virtue of dealing with all returnees. “We do not hold those returnees who have become good society members accountable for the irresponsible acts of a few.” He noted that prisoner's care programs are for those whose prison time was over. These programs are aimed at helping former prisoners to integrate into the society through various activities in which their families are also involved. Meanwhile, about 70 parents of Guantanamo returnees and detainees have submitted a letter to King Abdullah, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, condemning the resurfacing of the two Saudi former detainees as members of Al-Qaeda in Yemen. The two came in the tenth batch of Guantanamo returnees. There are still at least 13 Saudis in the Guantanamo prison. Officials from the Interior Ministry, supervisors from the returnee rehabilitation program, beside the tenth batch of returnees and their parents, met for about two hours on Tuesday at the Care and Rehabilitation Center in Al-Thomamah – northwest of Riyadh – and discussed issues related to the rehabilitation program. The returnees denounced what Sa'eed Al-Shihri and Muhammad Al-Oufi did and said the two wallowed in their grudge against their homeland. The father of Al-Shihri said his own son, fed by his deviant thought, once called him “infidel.” The man cursed his son in front of the attendance and prayed to God to remove him off the face of the earth for the “disgrace he brought upon his family and people.” “I did not expect him to leave his two kids and wife for Al-Qaeda,” the father said. Observers fear the existence of secret terrorist camps at the borders of the Kingdom would make it easier for terrorists to infiltrate through the long line of borders to carry out terrorist attacks, especially as the Al-Qaeda leaders in Yemen openly announced their intentions in their recent propaganda video on the Internet. But the terrorist group, experts say, is lacking leadership as a considerable number of them fell in the Kingdom like Yemeni Khaled Haj, Abdul Aziz Al-Miqrin, Saleh Al-Oufi, Morrocan Kareem Al-Majati and others due to sacrifices of Saudi security agents.
