Eleven Yemeni detainees have been moved from the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay to Oman. The move has left 15 detainees in the prison in Cuba - the smallest number at any point in its history. In a statement, the Department of Defense thanked Oman for supporting US efforts "focused on responsibly reducing the detainee population and ultimately closing" the facility. None of the men captured after the 9/11 terror attacks had been charged with any crimes in their more than two decades in detention. The transfer, which reportedly happened in the early hours on Monday, comes days before the accused mastermind of the 11 September 2001 attacks on the US, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, is scheduled to plead guilty, following a deal with federal officials to avoid the death penalty. Expand article logo Continue reading Monday's transfer of the Yemeni detainees is the largest to a single country at one time under President Joe Biden.
The original BBC link...
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The BBC has no pay-wall type restrictions, so I wonder why it was not cited?
OK, that aside ...
More from the BBC article above ...
... Efforts to resettle the group in Oman began years ago, but the US has said that Yemen, which is locked in a civil war, was too unstable for repatriation.
Those transferred from Guantanamo include Moath al-Alwi, who was cleared for release in 2022 and had become known for building model boats with objects found at the prison, and Shaqawi al Hajj, who went on repeated hunger strikes to protest his detention.
The men were cleared for transfer by federal national security review panels, which determined that doing so was "consistent with the national security interests of the United States", the Defense Department said.
The transfer came less than a week after Ridah Bin Saleh al-Yazidi, one of the prison's original detainees in January 2002, was repatriated to Tunisia.
The Defense Department said three of the 15 remaining detainees also are eligible for transfer.
The military prison is part of a US naval base complex in southeastern Cuba. It was established by the Bush administration in 2002, following the 9/11 attacks, to hold suspects captured in counter-terrorism operations. At its peak, it held about 800 detainees. ...
So, good.
I have never had a liking for holding people in prison with no apparent legal objection. So I tend to disagree with fmr Pres GW Bush on this aspect.
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