Trump closed an office that tracked ex-Gitmo inmates. Now we don't know where some went
Source: McClatchy
The Trump administration closed a diplomatic office designed to keep track of released Guantánamo inmates and make sure they didnt return to their insurgencies. And now the U.S. government has lost track of several of them, including one who has returned to a terrorist-held part of Syria, a McClatchy investigation has found.
The Obama administration created the office of the Special Envoy for Guantánamo Closure with a mandate to negotiate and follow up on prisoner releases. President Donald Trumps State Department emptied the office to underscore his campaign promise to keep open the U.S. military prison in Cuba, which today has 40 detainees.
One of the most glaring examples is that of former captive Abu Wael Dhiab, a Syrian who vanished from Uruguay last summer. Jose Gonzalez, executive adviser to Uruguays Interior Minister, told McClatchy that Dhiab walked across the Uruguay-Brazilian border, took a bus to Sao Paolo and caught a flight to Turkey. The Turkish Embassy in Washington said a search of Interior Ministry records found no evidence that he had arrived there.
Dhiab has been detected in south central Turkey where he has slipped in and out of the rebel held Idlib province, controlled by the al-Qaida affiliate al Nusra Front, according to a Syrian diplomatic source, citing Syrian intelligence. His mother is receiving medical care in Turkey, the Syrian said.
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greymattermom
(5,751 posts)Did he change passports during the flight?
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)aeromanKC
(3,307 posts)Trump wants the release of prisoners to fail so that he can blame Obama.
kimbutgar
(20,882 posts)In a putinesque way.
not_the_one
(2,227 posts)was just another step in allowing/hoping this to happen.
turdface is NOT going to go quietly. He knows his ass is grass, and before he hops on his private plane and heads to SA he is going to try and cause as much damage as possible. That will teach us to fuck with the mighty turd...
I hope he and his spawn, and ALL the enablers, DIE in jail.
SWBTATTReg
(21,859 posts)ing the country, he's making things worse for all of us.
Docreed2003
(16,817 posts)To show that Trump's ultimate goal is chaos and disorder?? He is following Putin's playbook. These acts are intentional and deserve to be looked into.