The Biden management on Monday introduced the switch of eleven Yemeni detainees being held at a U.S. naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba to Oman, which has agreed to assist re-settle them, amid steps to cut back the inhabitants on the arguable army facility.
All the males had been captured within the aftermath of the 9-11, 2001, terror assaults and had been held for greater than twenty years with out being charged or placed on trial, the New York Occasions reported.
“America appreciates the willingness of the federal government of Oman and different companions to make stronger ongoing U.S. efforts keen on responsibly lowering the detainee inhabitants and in the end final the Guantanamo Bay facility,” the Defense Department stated in a commentary.
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On this picture reviewed through U.S. army officers, the keep an eye on tower of Camp VI detention facility is observed on April 17, 2019, in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. (AP Picture/Alex Brandon, Record)
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The 11 detainees had been known as: Uthman Abd al-Rahim Muhammad Uthman, Moath Hamza Ahmed al-Alwi, Khalid Ahmed Qassim, Suhayl Abdul Anam al Sharabi, Hani Saleh Rashid Abdullah, Tawfiq Nasir Awad Al-Bihani, Omar Mohammed Ali al-Rammah, Sanad Ali Yislam Al Kazimi, Hassan Muhammad Ali Bib Attash, Sharqawi Abdu Ali Al Hajj, and Abd Al-Salam Al-Hilah.
Detainees get ready themselves for the night time prayer 04 March 2002 at Camp X-Ray in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba through going through in opposition to Mecca. (PETER MUHLY/AFP by way of Getty Photographs)
The switch used to be performed as a part of an early-morning secret operation on Monday, days sooner than Guantanamo’s maximum infamous prisoner, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, used to be scheduled to plead responsible to plotting the 9-11, 2001, assaults that killed just about 3,000 folks in change for a lifestyles sentence slightly than face a death-penalty trial, the Occasions reported.
The transfer were within the works for approximately 3 years after an preliminary plan to behavior the switch in October 2023 confronted opposition from congressional lawmakers.
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On this April 17, 2019 symbol, the keep an eye on tower is observed throughout the razor twine throughout the Camp VI detention facility in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. (AP Picture/Alex Brandon, Record)
Government did not say why the detainees had been brought to Oman, one of the most United States’ maximum strong allies within the Heart East, or what it gave the host nation.
The boys in the newest switch integrated Shaqawi al Hajj, who had passed through repeated starvation moves and hospitalizations at Guantanamo to protest his 21 years in jail.
With the discharge, the whole collection of males detained at Guantanamo is solely 15, the fewest since 2002, the 12 months it used to be became a detention web site to accommodate males from world wide arrested in reference to the “Battle on Terror.”
The switch leaves six never-charged males nonetheless being held at Guantanamo, two convicted and sentenced inmates, and 7 others charged with the 2001 assaults, the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, and 2002 bombings in Bali.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammad is held at Guantanamo Bay. (Getty Photographs)
Maximum of the ones at Guantanamo are from Yemen, a rustic ravaged through warfare and now ruled through the Iran-backed Houthi rebels.
The Related Press contributed to this document.
