Description About The Book

Features
•Presents the background and origin of threat groups in Iraq
•Examines the treatment of detainees, including the atrocities at Abu Ghraib
•Explores the elements of a successful detainee rehabilitation program
•Recounts the experience of military personnel and OSS contractors and their work with Iraqi nationals functioning as social workers, teachers, and clerics in rehabilitation programs
•Describes the programs and re-education process

Summary
Because terrorists are made, not born, it is critically important to world peace that detainees and inmates influenced by violent ideology are deradicalized and rehabilitated back into society. Exploring the challenges in this formidable endeavor, Terrorist Rehabilitation: The U.S. Experience in Iraq demonstrates through the actual experiences of military personnel, defense contractors, and Iraqi nationals that deradicalization and rehabilitation programs can succeed and have the capability to positively impact thousands of would-be terrorists globally if utilized to their full capacity.

Custodial and community rehabilitation of terrorists and extremists is a new frontier in the fight against terrorism. This forward-thinking volume:

•Highlights the success of a rehabilitation program curriculum in Iraq
•Encourages individuals and governments to embrace rehabilitation as the next most logical step in fighting terrorism
•Examines the recent history of threat groups in Iraq
•Demonstrates where the U.S. went awry in its war effort, and the steps it took to correct the situation
•Describes religious, vocational training, education, creative expression, and Tanweer programs introduced to the detainee population
•Provides insight into future steps based on lessons learned from current rehabilitation programs

It is essential that we shift the focus from solely detainment and imprisonment to addressing the ideological mindset during prolonged incarceration. It is possible to effect an ideological transformation in detainees that qualifies them to be reclassified as no longer posing a security threat. This volume demonstrates that with the proper program and encouragement, a detainee’s misunderstanding or extremist ideology can be replaced with the principles of moderation, toleration, and coexistence.

Rohan Gunaratna's Bio

Rohan Gunaratna is a specialist of the global threat environment, with expertise in threat groups in Asia, the Middle East and Africa. He is Head of Singapore’s International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research (ICPVTR), one of the largest specialist counter terrorism research and training centres in the world.

He is also Professor of Security Studies at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and a Senior Fellow at the International Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism, Oklahoma, USA. Gunaratna serves on the advisory board of International Centre for Counter- Terrorism in The Hague.

He is Member of the International Advisory Board of the International Institute for Counter Terrorism in Israel and a Member of the Steering Committee of George Washington University's Homeland Security Policy Institute. Gunaratna was a Senior Fellow both at Fletcher School for Law and Diplomacy and at the United States Military Academy's Combating Terrorism Centre at West Point.

He holds a Masters in International Peace Studies from Notre Dame, US, and a Doctorate in International Relations from St. Andrews, Scotland. Invited to testify before the 9-11 Commission on the structure of Al Qaeda, Gunaratna led the specialist team that built the UN Database on Al Qaeda, Taliban and their Entities. He debriefed detainees in the U.S., Asia, Middle East including high value Al Qaeda detainees in Iraq. He chaired the inaugural International Conference on Terrorist Rehabilitation in February 2009.

Author and editor of 14 books including “Inside Al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror” (Columbia University Press), an international bestseller, Gunaratna is also
the lead author of Jane’s Counter Terrorism, a handbook for counter terrorism practitioners. His latest book with Chandler, former Chairman of the UN Monitoring Group into the Mobility, Weapons and Finance is "Countering Terrorism: Can We Meet the Threat of Global Violence?”

A litigation consultant to the U.S. Department of Justice, Gunaratna was United States expert in the Jose Padilla trial.

Ami M. Angell's Bio

Ami M. Angell, PhD, LLM is currently a Research Fellow at the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research. She has spent a substantial amount of time working in the Middle East including 44 months in Iraq (2005-2008) and 24 months in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Israel. She has also worked and lived in Lebanon, Jordan, Qatar, Italy, Switzerland, France and England. While in Iraq, Angell’s primary focus was working alongside the U.S. military in detention operations. She resided primarily at Camp Bucca- then considered the largest detainee facility in the world with over 20,000 Iraqi detainees. As Program Lead for Operational Support and Services (OSS) she was responsible for the direct supervision and implementation of detainee rehabilitation programs to include religious discussion, education, vocational training, creative arts and civics. This included daily active interaction with the terrorist detainee population in addition to the hire and oversight of 150 local Iraqi professionals who lived on base and directly administered the programs.

In 2010 she was invited to Libya, Afghanistan, Pakistan and (back to) Iraq to evaluate and advise on the emerging and evolving extremist rehabilitation programs and assess their quality. In addition to detainee rehabilitation, Dr. Angell is passionate about programs in capacity building, the right to education, human trafficking, and protection from torture.

Angell has a PhD in Public International Law from American University of London, an LLM in Human Rights Law from the University of Essex, an MA in the Theory and Practice of Human Rights from the University of Essex, and a BA in Theology, Philosophy and Sociology from Newman University in Wichita, Kansas. She is originally from Oregon, U.S.A.

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