In fact, the Bush administration released more than twice as many detainees from Guantanamo as has the Obama White House. Thus, the help of other nations is very welcomed.
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Twelve of the prisoners were Yemeni nationals and three were Afghans.
One of the detainees who was transferred is an Afghan national, identified as Obaidullah, who has spent more than 13 years at Guantanamo.
Lee Wolosky, the State Department’s special envoy for Guantanamo’s closure, said the US was grateful to the United Arab Emirates for accepting the latest group of 15 men and helping pave the way for the detention center’s closure.
In the latest case of “while you were sleeping”, President Obama sneakily got closer to his goal of shutting down Guantanamo Bay (Gitmo). The debate is further complicated by former Guantánamo prisoners who have actually rejoined terrorist groups after their release, although the record appears to be improving: At least 21 percent of detainees released during the Bush administration re-engaged in terrorism, compared to 5 percent during Obama’s, according to USA intelligence officials.
“There is no doubt Donald Trump is temperamentally unfit and totally unqualified to be president of the United States and commander in chief”, she said.
A static display shows the belongings of a typical inmate in a prison cell at camp V at the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2013. Republican Senator Kelly Ayotte recently renewed calls to keep Guantanamo open and published an unclassified report on 107 current and former detainees that she said highlighted their terrorist pasts. “And now the president is giving more terrorists a one-way ticket back to the battlefield”.
“Several terrorists released by the Obama administration have returned to the battlefield and re-engaged in attacks against coalition forces and our allies”, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr, R-N.C., said in a statement. Karim said they first heard from Obiadullah a month ago and he told them he would be “released”. “I fear we will be dealing with the consequences of this recklessness for years to come”.
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The Congress of the United States has prohibited transferring prisoners from Guantanamo to the USA for any reason. Monday’s announcement means 19 inmates will remain who have been cleared for transfer. That’s roughly 18 percent of the 647 detainees that had been released from the prison by January, when the report was released. One of the Yemenis was a supervisor in bin Laden’s “security force”, and another detainee was an al Qaeda explosives expert. Earlier this year, a detainee who had been transferred to Uruguay in 2014 went missing.
