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Two Guantánamo detainees transferred as third refuses resettlement offer
Source: The Guardian
Two Guantánamo detainees transferred as third refuses resettlement offer
Notorious Egyptian snitch Tariq el-Sawah and Yemeni Abdul Aziz al-Swidi
moved from US dentention facility to Bosnia and Montenegro
Spencer Ackerman
Thursday 21 January 2016 17.21 GMT
One of Guantánamo Bay’s most notorious snitches, a corpulent Egyptian who won rare accolades from US military officers for his compliance, has been transferred to Bosnia, along with a Yemeni sent to Montenegro.
The two transfers, which occurred early on Wednesday morning, are expected to be the last to occur in January – one shy of the Obama administration’s goal of sending 17 men out of the detention facility after another detainee unexpectedly declined his resettlement offer.
The transfers of Tariq el-Sawah, the Egyptian detainee, and Yemeni Abdul Aziz al-Swidi, bring the detainee population at Guantánamo down to 91 people.
A January 2010 internal administration review cleared Swidi for transfer, although he was kept in Guantánamo because of the Obama administration’s self-imposed ban on resettling detainees in war-torn Yemen, along with a clutch of bureaucratic and congressional opposition.
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Notorious Egyptian snitch Tariq el-Sawah and Yemeni Abdul Aziz al-Swidi
moved from US dentention facility to Bosnia and Montenegro
Spencer Ackerman
Thursday 21 January 2016 17.21 GMT
One of Guantánamo Bay’s most notorious snitches, a corpulent Egyptian who won rare accolades from US military officers for his compliance, has been transferred to Bosnia, along with a Yemeni sent to Montenegro.
The two transfers, which occurred early on Wednesday morning, are expected to be the last to occur in January – one shy of the Obama administration’s goal of sending 17 men out of the detention facility after another detainee unexpectedly declined his resettlement offer.
The transfers of Tariq el-Sawah, the Egyptian detainee, and Yemeni Abdul Aziz al-Swidi, bring the detainee population at Guantánamo down to 91 people.
A January 2010 internal administration review cleared Swidi for transfer, although he was kept in Guantánamo because of the Obama administration’s self-imposed ban on resettling detainees in war-torn Yemen, along with a clutch of bureaucratic and congressional opposition.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/21/two-guantanamo-bay-detainees-transferred
