Follow the reasoning on this one:
Pakistan grabs a then-18-year-old during a sweep in 2002, less than a year after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The teen, as a judge eventually finds, was arrested and held without cause at our Guantanamo Bay prison facility. The judge — five months ago — orders the man, now 26, released.
The Obama administration balks. Even if the Yemeni, Alla Ali Bin Ali Ahmed,
was not dangerous in 2002, they said, Guantánamo itself might have radicalized him, exposing him to militants and embittering him against the United States. If he returned to his troubled homeland of Yemen, the officials feared, he might fall in with the growing contingent of Al Qaeda there, one more Guantánamo survivor to star in their propaganda videotapes.
So American officials first sought to route him to a rehabilitation program for militants in Saudi Arabia. But the Saudis would take him only if he wanted to go — and he did not.
To sum things up: He’s arrested and held without cause for eight years, which turns him into a potential terrorist, which creates the cause to hold him. When did we become the Latin America of Pinochet and Peron?
So it wanted to keep him in custody, which the judge overruled.
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Hank Kalet 