Tuesday, 7 January 2025
Fifteen left at Guantanamo
Eleven more detainees, all Yemeni, have been flown out of Guantanamo Bay detention camp to reside in Oman, leaving just 15 left in the most controverial, notorious, most heavily guarded prison on the planet. There are at least 800 troops and contractors guarding these 15 detainees which include Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-confessed architect of the al-Qaeda terrorist attack in the US on 9/11. The last 15 will be the hardest to evacuate elsewhere. Even if the trial goes ahead of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his co-conspirators under the proposed guilty plea deal, will anyone want them carted off to their country to serve their sentence? It's more likely the alleged 9/11 gang will stay put in Guantanamo for many more years while negotiations continue into an appropriate place for them to serve out their expected life sentences. This will be a job for Donald Trump as 47th president of the United States but I doubt he will spend much time worrying about it.
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