Newsday is reporting that the Saudi Arabian amnesty for terrorists, set to expire today, has done little to decrease the pool of militants fighting for Al-Qaeda. After examining the people coming in, it turns out that almost all of those who have turned themselves in are actually people who were about to quit the life anyway - who had run out of money, support, and places to hide. The Saudis claim that even so, they have gathered valuable information about terrorist organizations from the effort.
This raises a lot of questions about Iraqi plans to offer an amnesty for their own home-grown terrorists. Will it actually work (as it has in a few African countries) to bring militants from the fringes into society, or will it just allow some of the less committed or well-financed criminals to avoid prosecution? We learn more and more every day that the price of giving in to terrorists is more terror - check out the increasing and wacky demands of hostage takers in the Middle East. So I tend to suspect that offering the same people legitamacy is just likely to encourage them to larger acts of terror and lunacy.
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