US denies releasing two Guantánamo Bay detainees to Mauritania

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Source: AP

The US has denied claims from a prisoners' rights group in Mauritania that two Guantánamo Bay detainees have been released and returned to the African country.

No inmates have been transferred from Guantánamo since October last year, said Army Lt Col Joseph Todd Breasseale, a US Defense Department spokesman.

The report of the transfer of the two Guantánamo detainees was also denied by Nancy Hollander, a lawyer for one of the men. Hollander said that Mohamedou Ould Slahi is still in Guantánamo and reports of his release are untrue.

"It is totally false," Hollander said in a phone interview from Seattle. "It (his transfer) just didn't happen."

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/01/released-guantanamo-bay-detainees-mauritania

[Xipe Totec]

1. Several possible interpretations:

They were released but not in Mauritania.

They are in Mauritania, but not released yet.

They were released in Mauritania, but there were more than two.

They were released before October of last year.

The men release were not the ones represented by Hollander.

[Eugene]

3. According to Reuters' sources, a prisoner came from Bagram, Afghanistan.

U.S. transfers suspected senior al Qaeda member to Mauritania

[Grassy Knoll]

2. He Said, She Said News......

[dipsydoodle]

4. Well it certainly looks like someone was transferred from somewhere or other

if you link the Guardian's and Reuters', see reply #3, reports together.