Gitmo returnees need rehabilitation program, lawyers speculate [Archives:2007/1109/Local News]

By: Amel Al-Ariqi
SANA'A, Dec. 5 ) While U.S. military in Guantanamo released hundreds of different nationalities recently, American lawyers representing Yemeni detainees at the remote Cuban island claim that the Yemeni government does not do enough to release its citizens.

“We lawyers have not been given a seat at the negotiating table, so all we can do is speculate. There have been many public statements from the U.S. to the effect that Yemen and a handful of other countries are not willing to negotiate in good faith for the return of their countrymen. As I have frequently stated, if President Saleh really wants to bring the Yemeni men back home, he has to do more than have his spokesmen make empty public statements about “demanding”” repatriations. Other countries — like Bahrain