Washington ( CNN ) -- As the United States negotiated with countries around the world to find new homes for the remaining detainees held at Guantanamo Bay , Cuba , Kuwait 's minister of interior had a solution for the four Kuwaiti citizens left in the prison . `` You picked them up in Afghanistan ; you should drop them off in Afghanistan , '' Shaikh Jaber Al-Khalid Al-Sabah is quoted as saying , `` in the middle of the war zone , '' where the detainees could be killed in combat . The 2009 cable titled `` The Interior Minister 's remedy for terrorists : Let them die , '' is among the diplomatic documents posted online by WikiLeaks . In it , Al-Sabah is quoted as expressing concerns about his country 's ability to hold the Guantanamo detainees . `` You know better than I that we can not deal with these people . I ca n't detain them , '' said Al-Sabah . `` If I take their passports , they will sue to get them . I can talk to you into next week about building a rehabilitation center , but it wo n't happen . ... They are rotten and the best thing to do is get rid of them . '' The cable reflects the difficult position the Kuwaiti government was in regarding the detainees and its problems in `` apprehending and detaining terror financiers and facilitators under Kuwait 's current legal and political framework . '' Facing pressure to `` bring their boys home , '' as the cable puts it , Kuwait 's inability to keep the suspected terrorists in custody was a difficult and embarrassing issue , as exemplified by the case of Mohammed al-Bathali . Al-Bathali , a self-confessed jihadi recruiter and terror financier , had been sentenced to serve three to five years for `` 'inciting jihad ' against a friend state . '' But he was released on bond . In a different cable from the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh there is a discussion regarding the recidivism rate of Guantanamo detainees returned to Saudi Arabia who then passed through the country 's rehabilitation program . Of the 119 detainees who went through the program , the cable reports , the overall rate of recidivism was 8 to 10 percent , according to the 2009 cable . `` The real story of the Saudi rehabilitation program is one of success : at least 90 percent of its graduates appear to have given up jihad and reintegrated into Saudi society , '' the cable says . `` The recidivists are the exception , not the rule . '' The cable does acknowledge however , that it was more difficult to rehabilitate former Guantanamo detainees than others . In another creative solution for the detainees , Saudi Arabia 's King Abdullah proposed to implant a Bluetooth-like device into former Guantanamo detainees to track their movements . During a March 22 , 2009 , meeting between U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor John Brennan and King Abdullah , the king suggested an `` electronic chip '' be implanted in the detainees to allow for tracking their movements as is done with Saudi horses and falcons . According to the cable , Brennan deflected the idea , saying , `` horses do n't have good lawyers , '' pointing out that such a proposal would face legal hurdles in the United States . The relocation of 17 Chinese Muslim Uyghurs detained at Guantanamo Bay also was a thorny issue for the United States , according to the WikiLeaks cables . Attempts to find new homes for those detainees was met with resistance because of fear of retribution from China . At one point , Germany considered accepting seven of the Uyghurs . But the government was `` subsequently warned by China of ' a heavy burden on bilateral relations ' '' between Germany and China if the Germans accepted the detainees . According to one cable , German Chancellery Security and Foreign Policy Advisor Christoph Heusgen said relocation of the Uyghurs `` would be 'too difficult , ' but Germany could probably accept ' 2-3 others ' from Guantanamo . The document also summarized Heusgen as saying , `` if Germany were to take any [ Uyghurs ] , it would be best to do so in combination with other European countries to prevent China from focusing its opposition on any one country . '' In another cable , this one from the U.S. Embassy in Bishkek , Kyrgyzstan , the Chinese ambassador to Kyrgyzstan , Zhang Yannian , is quoted as calling America 's refusal to relocate the detainees to China a `` slap in the face . '' The missive quotes Zhang as saying , `` Releasing 17 from Guantanamo is an unfriendly act toward us . '' `` He then went on at length about what a 'slap in the face ' it was to China that the Uyghur detainees were not going to be returned to their homeland but instead shipped to Germany , where reportedly they had already been granted refugee status , '' the cable says . It goes on to say that Zhang `` did imply that the Guantanamo situation had made China look for ways to hit back at the U.S. '' The 17 Uyghurs were eventually relocated to Palau , Bermuda , Albania and Switzerland .
A cable posted on WikiLeaks quotes a Kuwaiti official on Guantanamo detainees . `` We can not deal with these people . I ca n't detain them , '' he says . The cables also reveal that the US has been using secret prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan to hold prisoners who are suspected of being involved in terrorist activities.