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u.s. troubles over yemeni gitmo detainees
The Obama administration hopes to close the prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in the next year. But officials keep running into an intractable problem: Nearly half the prisoners are from the Gulf state of Yemen, which is the last place the U.S. wants to release potential terrorists.
FBI Mueller Requested al Badawi
So it was a high-level request. Interesting that the embassy confirmed Muellers demands for al Badawi (a Yemeni, and therefore unlikely to be handed over) and not ElBaneh, who holds an American citizenship and would presumably be easier to get…of course, I suppose Jaber would have to be locked up first before he could be [...]
