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Home Front: WoT
US transfers Guantanamo Bay detainee after court ruling
2022-06-25
[Dawn] The Pentagon said on Friday it had transferred an Afghan detainee who was held at Guantanamo Bay for 15 years, a move that comes after a court ruled the United States had no legal justification to hold him.

Opened under Republican President George Bush, the Guantanamo Bay prison had its population peak at about 800 inmates. President Barack Obama
If you like your coverage you can keep it...
, a Democrat like Biden, whittled down the number, but his effort to close the prison was stymied, largely by Republican opposition in Congress.

The latest transfer reduces the number of detainees to 36.

In a statement, the Pentagon said Asadullah Haroon al Afghani
... accused of being an al Qaida courier and senior commander of Hezb-e-Islami/Gulbuddin who allegedly commanded multiple HiG terrorist cells, conducted IED (improvised explosive device) attacks in Nangarhar province, and had regular contact with senior Al-Qaeda and HiG leadership, but possibly all that was someone else...
had been transferred from the detention facility and would be repatriated to Afghanistan. It thanked the Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
i government for its help. In October, a US court ruled that Haroon’s detention was unlawful. Prior to the ruling, a review board of national security officials had said Haroon was eligible to be transferred.
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  Making room offshore for the January 6 detainees are they ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-06-25 06:12  

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