US To Transfer Yemeni, Tajik Guantanamo Inmates to Serbia

Under a closure plan sent to Congress in February, he intends to transfer or repatriate those cleared for release, now 26 people, prosecute others and keep those that are deemed the most risky in a prison on the us homeland.

Jon Sands, an Arizona federal public defender, told the Miami Herald he didn’t believe Suleiman had family ties in Italy. Both bills include cumbersome overseas transfer restrictions that make it more hard, but not impossible, for the administration to transfer detainees. “I think this speaks well about our country and that this is a good signal for the future”, Vucic said.

President Barack Obama had hoped to close the prison during his first year in office in 2009 but has faced opposition from many Republican lawmakers as well as some fellow Democrats.

In 2014, the administration gave up waiting for security conditions to improve in Yemen and began diplomatic efforts to find other nations willing to resettle them.

Pentagon records from 2008 said that the Yemeni was born in Saudi Arabia and at one point worked as an imam at King Abdulaziz Airport northwest of Mecca. Al-Dayfi, who is also known as Abdul Rahman Ahmed, was an admitted commander of al Qaeda tasked with evacuating front-line forces during hostilities between US forces and Osama bin Laden’s 55 Arab Brigade, according to military files. Information, however, came from a discredited informant – a Yemeni named Mohammed Basardah. These are the first detainee transfers to that country.

Two Tunisians were moved to Italy in November 2009.

Earlier Sunday, military leaders here briefed visiting reporters at the Detention Center Zone that the prison was detaining 79 captives, all “highly complaint”, meaning none was wearing an orange jumpsuit.

The Pentagon said Monday that it transferred a Tajik and a Yemeni Guantanamo inmate to Serbia as part of the Obama administration’s effort to close the detention center on the USA base in Cuba, bringing the number of detainees down to 76.