Is anyone surprised that a significant percentage of former Gitmo prisoners join al-Qaida?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091231/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_guantanamo_al_qaida
“Former Gitmo detainees help al-Qaida grow in Yemen
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – As a prisoner at Guantanamo, Said Ali al-Shihri said he wanted freedom so he could go home to Saudi Arabia and work at his family’s furniture store.
Instead, al-Shihri, who was released in 2007 under the Bush administration, is now deputy leader of al-Qaida [...]

How does Obama justify this decision and more importantly, why hasn’t anyone else called him on it?

WASHINGTON — One of three Guantanamo Bay detainees transferred by the Obama administration to Saudi Arabia had been implicated in the murder of an American.
The detainee, Ahmed Zaid Salim Zuhair, was accused in the 1995 shooting death of William Jefferson of Camden, N.J., who was working for the United Nations at the time in Bosnia. [...]

Does anyone know a website about the Arab/ Israeli conflict, and in they’re views about the war?

or at least a the local news for Arabs or local news for Israelis?
but in english or in arab/israeli language.

Is anyone from Yemen active on this category?

I’d like to communicate with people in Yemen on the Palestinian issue but also the history of Yemen and it’s future development. Unfortunately there is no category for Yemen. Are there any Yemen-based websites someone could provide links too?

why would anyone send a man to saudi arabia for rehab?

after 6 years in GITMO
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090123/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_yemen_al_qaida
saudi arabia all of all places? the biggest funders of terrorism in the world. why would you send someone there to be rehabilitated?

Anyone ever travel with Yemen Airways? are they good?