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Critics called it an overdue acknowledgment that the so-called
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The Daily
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Another of the five is Rida bin Saleh al Yazidi, a 51-year-old
Tunisian who military officials believed lived in Italy and was later captured in Pakistan. He was taken to Guantánamo in Jan. 2002. Officials said they had identified a country that was willing to accept him, but Yazidi rejected a
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I have already discussed at length the profound injustice of holding
Shawali Khan and Abdul Ghani, in articles here and here, and noted how their cases discredit America, as Khan, against whom no evidence of wrongdoing exists, nevertheless had his habeas corpus petition denied, and Ghani, a
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The prison enters its 16th year with just two of those first 20 worst of the worst still here — Yemeni Ali Hamza al Bahlul, 47, the prison's lone convict, and
Tunisian Ridah bin Saleh al Yazidi, 51, who has been cleared to go since at least 2009 but no country has agreed to take
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was inaugurated. During the election campaign Trump had promised that, once he took power, no one would ever leave detention at
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Ridah Bin Saleh al-Yazidi was listed as one of the captives who the Wittes team unable to identify as presently cleared for release or transfer.
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thoroughly insignificant scrap metal merchant, was put forward for a trial by military commission — a war crimes trial — under President Bush.
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to access the US Federal Court system. And all previous Guantanamo captives' habeas petitions were eligible to be re-instated.
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request. Al-Yazidi was one of the 126 individuals approved for transfer.
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was drafted on June 6, 2007. It was signed by camp commandant
1151:"The Trump era has stranded these five men at Guantanamo Bay"
540:"Guantánamo Prisoners Getting Their Day, but Hardly in Court"
1014:"Does Obama Really Know or Care About Who Is at Guantánamo?"
353:"PETITIONER’S UNOPPOSED MOTION TO ENTER PROTECTIVE ORDER"'
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stayed in Al Qaeda, Taliban or other guest- or safehouses
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605:"Q&A: What next for Guantanamo prisoners?"
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736:"Guantanamo Bay Detainee Litigation: Doc 12"
16:Tunisian Guantanamo Bay detainee (born 1965)
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220:traveled to Afghanistan for jihad
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1130:Savage, Charlie (24 June 2014).
323:Military Commissions Act of 2006
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452:"JTF- GTMO Detainee Assessment"
340:could not remove the right for
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