This is John Batchelor, conversation with my colleague Bill Rajo, the Foundation for the Defense

of Democracy, about Guantanamo in the news because of a decision made by the Secretary of Defense to cancel a plea deal arranged with three of the

worst of the Al-Qaeda killers, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and two Saudi citizens, illegal combatants who have been held for more than 20 years.

However, this is an occasion for Bill to turn to what do we know about those who have been released

from Guantanamo, released into the custody

of another country.

The recidivism rate, that is back to the battlefield, back to being killers, is more than 30 percent% and as Bill says they don't retire to a golf

course. Here's Bill Rajo on the illegal combatant detainees at Guantanamo

still dangerous, unpredictable.

More of this later tonight.

Yeah, so the recidivism rate for the, it's, this is a disputed topic but the office of the

directed and national intelligence estimates that oh in as a 2020 that over 31

percent of the of those released from Guantanamo have re-engaged in

terrorist activities that includes a tax recruitment funding financing, all of that. That's what they know. My guess is you probably

can double that number. Look, I was the, the, uh, I have-hand experience with one of them released and a Kuwaiti terrorist who was released back to Kuwait.

When I was in Iraq in 2008 in Mosul he was released in I believe in 2006 and

within two years he travels to Iraq joins al-Qaeda in Iraq and launches a

suicide attack on a combat outpost in Mosul.

I was on the scene within about 10, 15 minutes of that attack, that combat outpost

inment and 13 Iraqi soldiers died a massive, one of the largest

suicide bombings in Iraq period, a massive crater that looked you know looked like Oklahoma City times three

so the they get back in the game if they are able and if they're willing and

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