At the Long War Journal, Tom Joscelyn has another success story rung up by the brilliant project to wean jihadists off jihad by sending them to . . . a “rehabilitation” program in Saudi Arabia (where Wahhabism is the state religion and infidels are deemed too low a life-form to enter the holy cities). Sort of like a twelve-step program that meets at the local gin-mill.

It seems that Ibrahim Suleiman al-Rubaish has left the Kingdom — one of several Saudi rehab program graduates to rejoin the jihad. He now sits in Yemen as al-Qaeda’s top mufti in the Arabian Peninsula. That is, he is an authority in Islamic jurisprudence who can approve (among other things) terrorist attacks. Rubaish had been held at Gitmo for five years after his capture in Pakistan in 2001, but the Saudis persuaded our government that they could handle the matter. Consider it handled.

Oh, by the way, you’ll be pleased to know Yemen is developing its own rehab program, too. It’s not like we won’t have options here. Who needs Gitmo, that international embarrassment? Obviously, keeping trained jihadists locked up in Cuba causes far more terrorist recruitment than does allowing them to stroll free and clear around the globe.