U.S. Transfers Nine Guantanamo Prisoners to Saudi Arabia

Move is part of Obama administration’s effort to release detainees considered low-risk
April 16, 2016
The Wall Street Journal

...“The government played Russian roulette with Mr. Ba Odah’s life for more than a year,” his lawyer, Omar Farah, an attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights Attorney said. “That he survived is not so much a cause for celebration as it is a reckoning that ought to remind the White House of the cost of elevating politics over the life and liberty of a human being. Mr. Ba Odah’s transfer today ends one of the most appalling chapters in Guantánamo’s sordid history.”

The other prisoners released were Ahmed Umar Abdullah Al-Hikimi, Abdul Rahman Mohammed Saleh Nasir, Ali Yahya Mahdi Al-Raimi, Muhammed Abdullah Muhammed Al-Hamiri, Ahmed Yaslam Said Kuman, Abd al Rahman Al-Qyati, Mansour Muhammed Ali Al-Qatta, and Mashur Abdullah Muqbil Ahmed Al-Sabri...

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April 18, 2016