2 Ex-Guantanamo Bay Detainees to Tie the Knot in Uruguay

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

2 Ex-Guantanamo Bay Detainees to Tie the Knot in Uruguay
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — May 28, 2015, 4:46 PM ET
By LEONARDO HABERKORN and PETER PRENGAMAN Associated Press

Two former Guantanamo Bay detainees are planning to tie the knot with women from their adopted home of Uruguay.

Imam Samir Selim told The Associated Press on Thursday that he would officiate at the ceremony for both men June 6 at the Egyptian Islamic Center in Montevideo.

"This is great. It's beautiful," Selim said during a phone interview. "These men want to make their lives here in Uruguay. They want to work and live like other men, and that means getting married."

Selim said Adel bin Muhammad El Ouerghi of Tunisia and Omar Abdelhadi Faraj of Syria are marrying Uruguayan women who have converted to Islam. He said the men met the women at the center, but declined to provide more details.


Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/guantanamo-bay-detainees-tie-knot-uruguay-31370325

[UpInArms]

1. that was so ... not what I was expecting to find

when I clicked the link

I hope all four of them find happiness and peace

[christx30]

5. The headline was written badly.

Made it sound like the detainees were going to marry each other. Does Uruguay even allow same sex marriages?

[YOHABLO]

2. Great so these women have been converted to Islam to be subjucated. Have a nice life ladies.

[metalbot]

3. Well, obviously

In Uruguay, there's so much social pressure to become a Muslim, that clearly they have converted so that they could be subjugated.

[PSPS]

4. LOL. Yes, they were "detainees" now. How quaint.