RABAT — The United States on Wednesday handed over three Moroccans held at its Guantanamo Bay detention facility to Morocco, Moroccan security officials said.The transfer was made in a special US aircraft which landed in Rabat.
The prisoners were identified as Najib Lahcini, Mohamed Souleymani Laalami and Mohamed Al Ouali who were arrested in 2002 during the US campaign to topple the Taleban in Afghanistan.
In 2004 US authorities had returned a group of five Moroccans, detained at Guantanamo in Cuba, to Morocco. The five men are suspected of membership of a terrorist organisation and have been standing trial since December 6, 2004. The trial has been adjourned several times.