Pentagon Reportedly Finds Large Increase in Number of Gitmo Recidivists

More than 100 former detainees may be back on the battlefield.
BY Thomas Joscelyn
January 6, 2010

Press reports indicate that the latest Pentagon assessment of recidivists who were once held at Guantanamo “shows about one in five detainees released” have returned to terrorism. That, of course, is a recidivism rate of “about” 20 percent. Although these same press accounts do not note the total number of recidivists, it has been noted that “more than 560 detainees” have been released. These same two elements (recidivism rate and approximate number of detainees transferred/released) appeared in the last DoD recidivist study released to the public. Putting them together we get 20% * 560 former detainees = an estimated 112 recidivists.

How does this figure compare to previous estimates? It is a huge increase. the rest