It is long past time for this shameful episode in American history to be brought to a close. That administration considered transferring some detainees — most of whom who had been imprisoned for more than a decade without charge or trial — to a prison in the United States.
And it would perpetuate, and possibly worsen, the agony of men denied an end to their plight. State Police officers searched backyards. These days, locking doors has become a habit. Leduc [a local resident] said she started carrying bear mace. As frightening as the ordeal of a pair of escaped murderers may have been, one can easily imagine why a community would not want to house dozens of detainees with connections to global terrorist organizations with thousands of adherents.
Virtually anywhere in the U. It surely become a site of endless protests by activists and opponents of U. The constant disruption — not to mention cost — would become permanent feature that locals would have to endure ad infinitum. Cost is often raised as a reason to close Guantanamo.
Actually, there are no cost estimates based on the current population of just forty-one detainees. Nevertheless, there are — and have been — unnecessary expenditures at GITMO that have upped the detention bill, but the reality is that the naval station will remain open with or without the detention facility. The primary mission of that facility is not detention operations.
Maintain the fence line surrounding the base and the international shipping channel through Guantanamo Bay. Maintain a forward presence near the Windward Passage to the Caribbean.
Maintain port facilities, naval airfield and staging areas on the base in support of U. The most notorious is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the accused Sept. About two dozen have not been charged but have been deemed too dangerous to release.
Six inmates have previously been cleared for release by a government panel yet remain jailed with no arrangements for transfer. Biden aims to close Guantanamo Bay prison by the time he leaves office. Factbox: U. Naval Base, Cuba, June 3, Others are being held indefinitely without trial. The Bush administration transferred about detainees out of Guantanamo by the end of , and the Obama administration transferred nearly out of the facility by the beginning of Among the challenges US authorities face in transferring detainees out of Guantanamo is obtaining agreements guaranteeing humane treatment from their home countries, or getting a third country to agree to resettle them and prevent their return to hostilities against the US.
Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, Slovakia and Albania have been among the largest recipients of nationals from other countries. In , five Taliban prisoners were transferred to Qatar in exchange for the release of American soldier Bowe Bergdahl, who was held captive for five years in Afghanistan and Pakistan after deserting the US Army. Four of those five are now members of the new Taliban government in Afghanistan. Two men have been released since Obama left office in January Both were returned to their home countries.
After more than 15 years at Guantanamo, Ahmed al-Darbi was returned to Saudi Arabia in to continue serving a prison sentence for a bomb attack on an oil tanker off the coast of Yemen. On July 19, the Biden administration released its first detainee, Abdul Latif Nasser , a Moroccan, four years after he had been cleared for transfer in Held for 19 years, Nasser was never charged with any crime. The military commissions are tribunals organised outside the framework of US and international law by the US Department of Defense to bring charges against detainees at Guantanamo.
US constitutional protections of due process do not apply, allowing the government to maintain secret evidence derived from torture and to hold detainees indefinitely.
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