Guantanamo prisoner from Mauritania back home after 13 years
Source: Associated Press
Guantanamo prisoner from Mauritania back home after 13 years
Updated 5:28 pm, Thursday, October 29, 2015
MIAMI (AP) — Another prisoner has been released from the detention center on the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the Pentagon said Thursday.
Ahmed Abdel Aziz was sent back to his native Mauritania after 13 years in custody at Guantanamo. He is the 14th prisoner released this year amid a continuing standoff between President Barack Obama and Congress over Obama's attempt to close the detention center.
Aziz was initially detained as a suspected member of al-Qaida with ties to some of the most senior members of the terrorist organization. He was captured by Pakistani authorities at a suspected al-Qaida safe house and turned over to the U.S. He was never charged with a crime.
His lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith of the human rights group Reprieve, said the release was long overdue and the U.S. owes an apology to the 45-year-old Aziz. The former prisoner has a wife and son in Mauritania and immediately reunited with them upon arrival in the North African country. Aziz plans to work at a newspaper owned by his brother-in-law, the lawyer said.
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It's bad enough that we torture behind closed doors, and have for who knows how long...but to try and make it legal and socially acceptable/supported by the majority?? Chilling.
