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| Hadi Wants Yemeni Gitmo Detainees Released, Site |
| 2012-10-02 |
| [Yemen Post] Yemen's President Abdrabu Mansour Hadi has cancelled all financial conditions to receive the Yemeni Gitmo detainees that were set by the former president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... , Alahale reported on Sunday quoting well-informed Yemeni and US sources. Hadi is currently on a visit to the US within his first overseas trip that included stops in the UK and other European countries. He met with US officials in Washington on Sunday who briefed him on the financial conditions set by his predecessor to receive the Yemeni detainees, who are held in the US Guantanamo jail, the website quoted the sources as saying. "Saleh demanded $200 million in return for receiving the Yemeni detainees, but the US offered him only $20 million. The two sides could not reach an agreement to release the detainees by then," the US officials told Hadi. One of the sources said the US officials admired Hadi who said the detainees are Yemenis and their government should be responsible for their release, it added. The Yemeni detainees make up about half of all those held in Guantanamo. In the past few years, a number of them were released and sent home. One of the detainees was reported to have died in the jail this year, but no details were available about his death in Yemen. |
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