Saudi releases 55 former Guantanamo prisoners

This one leaves me scratching my head:

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- The Saudi Arabian government will temporarily release 55 prisoners recently transferred from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and will give each of them about $2,600 to celebrate the upcoming Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, a newspaper reported Saturday.

Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz granted the temporary releases from detention centers in Saudi Arabia so the prisoners could spend time with their families during the holiday in mid-October, the Okaz newspaper reported.

First, with $2,600 in their pockets, what's to keep them from disappearing before the end of the holiday? Second, if these guys are that trustworthy, why did we have to keep them looked up in Guantanamo for so long? Third, even if they weren't terrorists to begin with, I rather suspect that, after being locked up in Guantanamo for years and suffering under our "it's not really torture if it doesn't kill you" "enhanced techniques," they'd be prepared to take arms against us now. Hell, if I'd been locked up there for years, I'd be ready to take revenge.

I guess nobody said that our policies had to make sense.