Washington: Biden government on Monday moved prisoners from Guantanamo Gulf Detention Facilities for the first time, sent a Moroccan man back home for years after he was advised to come out.
Moroccan prisoners, Abdullatif Nasser, who were in the middle of the 50s, were cleaned because of repatriation by reviewers in July 2016 but remained at Guantanamo during the President of Trump.
The process of regional review council determines that Nasser’s detention is no longer needed to protect US national security, said Pentagon Monday in a statement.
The council recommends authorization for Nasser’s repatriation, but it cannot be completed before the end of the Obama administration, he said.
Nasser transfers can advise President Joe Biden is to make an effort to reduce the Guantanamo population, which is now standing in 39.
President George W Bush and Barack Obama support the detention process, but stopped under President Donald Trump.
Trump said even before he was serving that there should be no further release of “Gitmo,” when Guantanamo Bay was often called.
” This is a very dangerous person and should not be allowed to return to the battlefield, “he said.
The possibility that the former Guantanamo prisoner will continue hostile activities have long been a concern that has been played in the release debate.
The office of the National Intelligence Director said in the 2016 report that around 17% of the 728 prisoners who had been released were “confirmed ‘and 12%” allegedly “involved in the activity.
But most of the involvement occurred with a former detention that was not through regulated security reviews Under Obama.
Task Force that includes agents such as the Department of Defense and the CIA analyzes who is held in Guantanamo and decides who can be released and who must continue.
The US thanks Morocco to facilitate Nasser’s transfer back home.
“United States Praising the Kingdom of Morocco for his long partnership in securing the national security interests of the countries, ‘said the Pentagon Statement.
“The United States is also very grateful for the willingness of the kingdom to support US efforts on sustainable to close.
Guantanamo bay detention facilities.’ ‘ Nasser initially got word he would be on Released in the summer of 2016, when one of his lawyers called him in the detention center and told him that the US had decided that he no longer pose a threat and could.
back home.
He thought he would soon return to Morocco: “I’ve been here 14 years,” he said at the time.
“A few more months there is nothing.” Nasser’s journey to Cuban prison was long.
He is a member of the Moroccan Sufi Islamic group who did not switch but illegal in the 1980s, according to his Pentagon file.
In 1996, he was recruited for Fighting in Chechyna but ended in Afghanistan, where he was trained in the Al-Qaeda camp.
He was arrested after fighting US forces there and sent to Guantanamo in May 2002.
A unknown military official was appointed to represent him before the reviewer said he studied he studied Mathematics, computer science and English in Guantanamo, created an Arabic-English dictionary of 2,000 words.
The official told the board that Nasser “deeply regretted his actions about the past ” and expressed his belief he would integrraded in society.