YEAH, SURE, WHAT COULD GO WRONG?: Obama administration to release former bin Laden bodyguard from Gitmo.
Abdul Rahman Shalabi, 39, has been cleared by the Periodic Review Board to return to Saudi Arabia after a nine-year hunger strike protesting his confinement, The Associated Press reported.
The board, which was set up by the Obama administration in 2011, “acknowledges the detainee’s past terrorist-related activities,” but will send him to a Saudi rehabilitation program for Islamic radicals anyway, AP reported.
The al Qaeda associate’s lawyer said in April that his client, who was never officially charged, has been force-fed through a nasogastric tube for nine years.
Being fed through a nasogastric tube for nine years? Good thing he’s not some radical or anything. And sending a former OBL bodyguard who is so nutty that he’s refused food for nine years to a “Saudi rehabilitation program for Islamic radicals” sounds like a reasonable move by the President. I mean, it’s not like the Saudis are radical or anything–I’m sure they’ll have a terrific twelve-step rehab program — a Terrorists Anonymous or something. Yeah, that’s the ticket.