Friday, January 06, 2017

Guantanamo detainees to be freed as Obama plans mass transfer of fanatics

Guantanamo detainees to be freed as Obama plans mass transfer of fanatics | Daily Mail Online:
EXCLUSIVE: At least 18 MORE Guantanamo detainees to be freed within days as Obama starts mass transfer of fanatics who have threatened to bomb and behead Americans
  • DailyMail.com has learned that at least 22 of the 59 Guantanamo Bay detainees should be transferred before January 20; four were moved on Thursday 
  • Move would mean more than a third of the detainees leaving U.S. custody before Donald Trump takes office 
  • Trump has already warned President Obama against moving any of those there saying they are 'dangerous' 
  • DailyMail.com lists every detainee still held at Cuban facility first opened in 2002 - including one who threatened to behead a guard but is cleared to go 
  • Transfer scheme lets other countries take responsibility for the detainees but critics say supervision is minimal and some have returned to terror 
  • Those freed on Thursday were four Yemenis sent to Saudi Arabia 
  • Previously freed detainees have returned to the jihad, including at least four members of group which says it carried out Charlie Hebdo massacre in Parise-mail
President Obama is planning to transfer at least 18 more Guantanamo Bay detainees within days after announcing that four prisoners are being sent to Saudi Arabia, DailyMail.com has learned.
The group being released will be drawn from those held at Guantanamo - who include an accused senior al Qaeda bomb-maker, the terror group's top financial manager, and two intended 9/11 hijackers, who have all been held in the Cuba-based U.S. detention facility for more than a decade.
According to a military source briefed on the process, as total of 22 detainees are being prepared for transfer out of the camp, also known as Gitmo, before January 20..."

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