Guantanamo inmate sent to home country in Biden policy shift

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By DINO HAZELL

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Monday transferred a Guantánamo Bay detainee to his home country for the first time, a policy shift from the Trump presidency that repatriated a Moroccan man years after he was recommended for discharge.

The prisoner, Abdullatif Nasser, who’s in his mid-50s, was cleared for repatriation by a review board in July 2016 but remained at Guantánamo under President Donald Trump. In announcing his transfer Monday, the Pentagon cited the board’s determination that Nasser’s detention was no longer necessary to protect U.S. national security.

Nasser, also known as Abdul Latif Nasser, arrived Monday in Morocco, where police took him into custody and said they would investigate him on suspicion of committing terrorist acts — even though he was never charged while in Guantánamo.

The State Department said in a statement the Biden administration would continue “a deliberate and thorough process” to reducing the detainee population at Guantánamo “while also safeguarding the security of the United States and its allies.”



This undated photo released by lawyer Shelby Sullivan-Bennis on Dec. 11, 2017 shows his client Abdullatif Nasser at the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Biden administration on Monday, July 19, 2021, transferred a detainee out of the Guantánamo Bay detention facility for the first time, sending the Moroccan man back home years after he was recommended for discharge. Nasser, who's in his mid-50s, was cleared for repatriation by a review board in July 2016 but remained at Guantanamo for the duration of the Trump presidency. (Shelby Sullivan-Bennis via AP)


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[Turbineguy]

1. Make some room for

trumpanzees.

[SheltieLover]

2. My thoughts exactly!

None of the prisoners murdered over half a million Americans on our soil!

[abqtommy]

4. +100 I'm with ya on this one.

[clementine613]

8. I'm in favor of throwing every one of them in there, without trial

... just as they did to these people.

[Bayard]

3. He was never charged while in Guantnamo.

I guess due process didn't apply there?

[Warpy]

5. No due process, no laws against torture, all sorts of things

which is why Dubya/Cheney stashed them offshore.

It's a shame the Obama administration didn't let him go in 2016, but I suppose they thought no one would be stupid enough to vote for Dumdum.

[George II]

6. You didn't write the headline but it's very misleading. It's not a "Biden policy shift"....

It was never Biden's policy to keep these prisoners in Guantanamo Bay. It was bush's policy.

This is a shift from unfairly keeping these people imprisoned for years without charges or trials.

[soldierant]

7. It's a policy shift and it's being made by Biden.

It could have been anyone's originally, and was in fact Cheney's and Shrub's.

I'm sure you're right that not everyone will read it that way without specifics though.