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5 Guantanamo Detainees Transferred to Europe Today
At the Miami Herald, Carol Rosenberg reports that the Pentagon today transferred 5 inmates at Guantanamo Bay to two countries in Europe.
According to Rosenberg, three of the detainees were sent to Georgia. Of that trio, Abdul Khaled al Baidani and Abdel Ghalib Hakim are Yemeni nationals, while Salah Mohammed al Thabbi is Tunisian. Two other detainees were sent to Slovakia: a Tunisian, Hisham Sliti and a Yemeni, Hussain Almerfedi.
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At the Miami Herald, Carol Rosenberg reports that the Pentagon today transferred 5 inmates at Guantanamo Bay to two countries in Europe.
According to Rosenberg, three of the detainees were sent to Georgia. Of that trio, Abdul Khaled al Baidani and Abdel Ghalib Hakim are Yemeni nationals, while Salah Mohammed al Thabbi is Tunisian. Two other detainees were sent to Slovakia: a Tunisian, Hisham Sliti and a Yemeni, Hussain Almerfedi. All five were approved for release in 2010.
Today's transfers bring the Guantanamo detainee population to 143. Importantly, Rosenberg reports that more transfers are also in the pipeline; six detainees may be sent to Uruguay next month.
Ben Bissell is an analyst at a geopolitical risk consultancy and a Masters student at the London School of Economics. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Virginia with majors in political science and Russian in 2013. He is a former National Security Intern at the Brookings Institution as well as a Henry Luce Scholar, where he was placed at the Population Research Institute in Shanghai, China.
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