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Can terrorists be rehabilitated with kindness?
NOW ON PBS partners with best-selling author and journalist
Robert Lacey to investigate the surprising success of Saudi
Arabia's approach to dealing with terrorists and extremists -
without torture or water-boarding. Given extraordinary access to
the Saudi Arabian Interior Ministry and its practices, Lacey visits
terrorist rehabilitation camps that use "soft policing" tactics to
be nice to the bad guys.
The report shows the Saudis providing a private jumbo jet to
bring inmates home from Guantanamo Bay, giving them a hero's
welcome, then sending them to a converted holiday resort for
re-education. Then, the men are set free.
Is this rehab program working, and can America trust the
Saudis to protect themselves - and us - against Islamic
extremism in the future?