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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFive more detainees transferred from Gitmo
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/228297-five-more-detainees-transferred-from-gitmoDecember 31, 2014, 07:31 am
Five more detainees transferred from Gitmo
By Peter Sullivan
Five detainees have been transferred out of Guantanamo Bay to Kazakhstan, the Defense Department announced late Tuesday.
The Pentagon said the transfers were unanimously approved by the interagency Guantanamo Review Task Force.
The move comes as President Obama continues efforts to shutter the controversial detention center, which has remained open throughout his tenure despite an early promise to close it.
Two other prisoner transfers have already taken place this month. Six detainees were moved to Uruguay and four to Afghanistan. There are now 127 detainees remaining.
Im going to be doing everything I can to close it, Obama told CNNs State of the Union" earlier this month, referring to the Guantanamo facility. It is something that continues to inspire jihadists and extremists around the world, the fact that these folks are being held. It is contrary to our values and it is wildly expensive.
The Obama administration has faced a range of obstacles in closing the prison, though. Last week, Cliff Sloan, the State Department's envoy responsible for negotiating Guantanamo prisoner transfers, resigned.
The resignation came amid reports of frustration with the Pentagon for not moving faster on transfers, but Sloan told The New York Times that he had always planned to leave after 18 months.
Congress has also passed measures preventing the transfer of prisoners to U.S. soil. When Obama signed the Defense authorization bill this month, which included such language, he wrote a signing statement that under certain circumstances the restrictions would violate constitutional separation of powers principles.
The Pentagon identified the latest transfers as Asim Thabit Abdullah Al-Khalaqi, Muhammad Ali Husayn Khanayna, Sabri Muhammad Ibrahim Al Qurashi, Adel Al-Hakeemy and Abdullah Bin Ali Al-Lufti.
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Five more detainees transferred from Gitmo (Original Post)
babylonsister
Dec 2014
OP
“I’m going to be doing everything I can to close it,” President Obama.. I always knew this about
Cha
Dec 2014
#5
spanone
(135,844 posts)1. k&r...
close it down.
brer cat
(24,576 posts)2. K&R
Keep going, Mr. President, until they are all gone.
BumRushDaShow
(129,089 posts)3. I heard earlier today that in addition
some 59 others were "cleared to be released", basically leaving about 68 that they would need to deal with (apparently some who really were accessories and not just swept up in the fervor).
Cha
(297,299 posts)4. Good to know, BRDS.. Mahalo!
Cha
(297,299 posts)5. “I’m going to be doing everything I can to close it,” President Obama.. I always knew this about
Obama.. in spite of all those who are always whining he could close it he wanted to. The ones who believe he's the magic man and if something doesn't get done that they want.. then it's his fault.
BumRushDaShow
(129,089 posts)7. Found an article with the "59" reference
The transfer also signals a surge of European resettlement deals for Yemenis, the majority of Guantánamos remaining 59 cleared captives who cannot go home because of a powerful, potentially destabilizing al-Qaida faction in the Arabian Peninsula nation. The Obama administration in November sent two Yemenis to resettlement in Slovakia and three to the Republic of Georgia.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/guantanamo/article5216124.html#storylink=cpy
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/guantanamo/article5216124.html#storylink=cpy
Am glad to see the accelerated releases!
Cha
(297,299 posts)8. Glad to see the accelerated releases, too.. Happy New Year to them! Thank you for this, BRDS.
And, Thanks Obama~
Just because it's the end of the year and there's so many reasons..
President Obama greets Emmitt and Pat Smith and family, and Team 22 on the Rose Garden steps of the White House (Photo by Pete Souza)
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/12/31/photo-of-the-year-vote/
Cha
(297,299 posts)6. P.S. Mahalo babylonsistah!