Posted on 12/31/2014 11:10:00 AM PST by Ray76
The Defense Department announced Wednesday that five more prisoners will be transferred out of Guantanamo Bay to another nation, in the latest step by the Obama administration to whittle down the prisoner population in pursuit of ultimately closing the camp.
The five men will be transferred to the Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan for resettlement, the U.S. government announced.
The two men from Tunisia and three from Yemen -- who have been at the camp for a dozen years -- had been cleared for release from the prison by a government task force but could not be sent to their homelands.
The U.S. identified the Yemenis as Asim Thabit Abdullah Al-Khalaqi, who is about 46; Muhammad Ali Husayn Khanayna, who is about 36; and Sabri Mohammad al Qurashi, about 44.
According to a 2007 Defense document, posted on The New York Times website, Al-Khalaqi was "assessed" to be part of Al Qaeda and was captured alongside an Al Qaeda commander at Tora Bora.
Al Qurashi, likewise, allegedly got "militant training" at an Al Qaeda training camp and was arrested at an Al Qaeda safe house. Both were assessed to be "medium risk."
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Why not send them to Hawaii? Oh say, just down the street from the Obama compound.
When the Guantanamo Bay prisoner number reaches Zero , Obama will visit his Friend Fidel and hand over the Keys
‘for resettlement...’
Why aren’t these animals in body bags? @#$%^&*!
Exactly. They should never have been removed from Afghanistan, they should not have lived one minute longer than necesary to “extract” information from them, and we should not have stayed in Afghanistan one minute longer than necessary to make a nice pile of these bastards’ skulls.
Unfortunately I can’t put in print what is on my mind right now, damn it!
Naturally the media will lose track of them, so when they blow up buildings, the media will not trace it to 0bama.
Tough to say how this will turn out. The president of Kazakhstan is kind of a loon, so this could go either way.
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