Topic: U.S. Sends Home 10 Saudi Detainees

Baltimore Sun
December 29, 2007
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico--The U.S. military has returned 10 Saudi detainees from the Guantanamo Bay prison to their home country, a Pentagon spokesman said yesterday. About 136 of the 759 people detained at Guantanamo since 2002 have been Saudi, the second-largest group after Afghans. The majority have been repatriated - despite the fact that more than 90 percent are still considered a terrorist threat. The U.S. agreed to return the men with the understanding that Saudi Arabia will mitigate that risk, partly through a state program to reintegrate former detainees into civilian life, said Navy Cmdr. Jeffrey Gordon, a Defense Department spokesman.