Posted on 01/12/2008 11:19:07 AM PST by llevrok
Sanaa: About 70 Yemeni detainees in Guantanamo Bay are to be sent home very soon, a senior official said Saturday.
"As a result of negotiations between the security agencies of Yemen and US, we have reached an agreement on releasing about 70 detainees of our men in Guantanamo," said Abu Lehoom, chairman of the committee of foreign affairs at Shura council, president's Saleh's advisory council.
"Right now, they are only waiting for the travel procedures, which means any time soon, they'll be arriving here," said Abu Lehoom, who was speaking to a number of American lawyers representing Yemeni detainees, human rights activists and journalists in a traditional Yemeni gathering in his house in Sana'a.
The official, however, did not say when the men could arrive home, and he could not also give a list of those to be sent home.
About one hundred Yemenis, the largest group, are still languishing in Guantanamo after thirteen were released. One Yemeni was sent back a dead body after an alleged suicide.
The move came after a conference held in Sana'a late last week which brought together American lawyers, families of detainees, former detainees, human rights activists and government officials.
The conference recommended formation of a committee to follow up the release of the Yemenis and demanded the government to support their efforts for the sake of releasing of all the 270 men who still there and closing Guatanamo.
I hope they implant little GPS chips in their butts before they let them go.
Seventy at once? How many prisoners will be left?
70 more terrorists back in business the next day.
Yemen practices ecologically correct terrorist "catch and release." Who are you to judge?
< / sarc>
I wonder which one of TROP Bush’s Mohammedan bosses gave him this order?
Per the article, 240 +/-
Yemen doesn’t have a good track record for keeping prisoners. Especially if they have something against the USA. Remember what happened to the suspects that they had for the USS Cole bombing. Gone now.
“I don’t trust the Yemen Government to keep them in custody.”
I expect the Yemani govt to give them each a mule, 5 acres and two chickens. Then set them free.
Each most probably should be shot.
As long as they deliver them back to Yemen from 10,000 feet with no chutes, I have no problem.
They need to have good pictures and finger prints of them.
Will not be long before they “escape” and turn up in Iraq.
Yemeni crickets! This is not a good idea.
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