Posted on 11/07/2014 11:24:50 AM PST by grundle
Guantanamo Bay Naval Base (Cuba) (AFP) - The United States is preparing to release more than a dozen Guantanamo detainees as President Barack Obama works towards his long-promised goal of closing the controversial military prison, an US defense official said Wednesday.
The news comes the same day the Defense Department sent home one of two remaining detained Kuwaitis, bringing the total population at the jail on a US naval base in Cuba to 148.
Fawzi al-Odah, 37 -- who spent nearly 13 years in US detention -- took off in a Kuwaiti government plane at 5:30 am (1030 GMT), Lieutenant Colonel Myles Caggins told AFP.
He was headed to a rehabilitation center in his home country created for former Guantanamo detainees -- one which 10 Kuwaitis have already passed through.
The Obama administration said Wednesday it plans to speed up the releases in the coming months.
"The Department of Defense hopes to transfer more than a dozen detainees to countries in South America and Europe, in the next two months, through the winter," a Pentagon official told AFP.
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Obama is in a race to empty GITMO before Republicans take control of the Senate.
One would think the Pentagon would have learned from 911.
They released al Qaeda, and the released have murdered more,
enslaved more, raped more.
Is their Oath to the US Constitution
.... or ISIS/MoslemBrotherhood/alQaeda?
Releasing terrorists known to be a threat to civilized people everywhere. Another impeachable offense.
Odungo is shopping terrorist for traders...FIGURES
Add that to the many others.
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