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Caribbean-Latin America
Former Gitmo prisoner vanishes in South America
2016-06-19
More on this story from yesterday.
A former Guantanamo Bay prison living in Uruguay has vanished under mysterious circumstances, The Washington Post reports.
Oh how mysterious! Where, oh where could he be?
Law enforcement is now searching for the former detainee, Jihad Ahmed Mustafa Dhiab, a Syrian national, the paper reported Friday, citing a U.S. official.

“We are coordinating with officials in Brazil and Uruguay to determine his whereabouts,” the official told the paper on background to discuss a sensitive incident.

Officials believe Dhiab, imprisoned at Guantanamo in 2002 for suspected ties to al Qaeda, may have entered Pakistan Brazil illegally.

According to Uruguayan media, the country’s interior minister said Thursday Dhiab’s can make international trips, but Brazil hasn’t allowed him to enter the country previously, the Post reported.

Another Uruguayan government official told the Associated Press that Dhiab traveled legally to Pakistan Brazil, according to the Post. He hasn't been seen since June 6, a Brazilian online news outlet, Plus55.com, reported Friday.

“If Brazilian authorities didn’t allow his legal entry, they can send Dhiab back to Uruguay, but that’s a problem for Brazil,” the news outlet quoted Uruguayan Interior Minister Eduardo Bonomi as saying.

Dhiab went to Uruguay with five other Guantanamo Bay prisoners in 2014 in a deal between the south American country and Uruguay and the U.S. to resettle detainees seen as posing little threat. He spent 12 years at Guantanamo without being charged after his capture in Pakistan.
Posted by:Steve White

#3  Coming soon to a Southern border near you.
Posted by: charger   2016-06-19 12:21  

#2  Then he'll stand out as the only guest there, Frank G.
Posted by: trailing wife   2016-06-19 09:51  

#1  He prolly has tickets for the Olympics
Posted by: Frank G   2016-06-19 09:33  

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