“Though completely different processes, every of the Yemeni detainees underwent an intensive, interagency evaluation by profession professionals who unanimously decided all detainees as switch eligible according to the nationwide safety pursuits of the USA.”

The switch occurred early on Monday morning as a part of a covert operation to get the lads to Oman. The lads will then be capable to be resettled, simply and safely.

Precisely what the USA has agreed to, or offered Oman, in alternate for taking the prisoners is unclear at this level.

Yemen is in the course of a brutal civil warfare, and the lads are due to this fact unable to be returned to their very own nation for his or her security.

Each Moath Hamza Ahmed al-Alwi and Suhayl Abdul Anam al-Sharabi have been alleged to be bin Laden’s bodyguards. Al-Alwi can also be accused of being an al Qaeda fighter and in response to a 2016 intelligence file “has made a number of statements since early 2016 that counsel he maintains an extremist mindset.”

Al Sharabi “could have been related to an aborted 9/11-style hijacking plot in Southwest Asia.”, in response to a 2020 intelligence file.

The opposite names which have been launched are: Uthman Abd al-Rahim Muhammad Uthman, Khalid Ahmed Qassim, Hani Saleh Rashid Abdullah, Tawfiq Nasir Awad Al-Bihani, Omar Mohammed Ali al-Rammah, Sanad Ali Yislam Al Kazimi, Hassan Muhammad Ali Bib Attash, Sharqawi Abdu Ali Al Hajj and Abd Al-Salam Al-Hilah.

The lads that stay in Guantanamo embrace six never-charged, two convicted and sentenced inmates, and 7 others charged with the 2001 assaults, the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, and the 2002 bombings in Bali.

President-elect Donald Trump beforehand vowed to maintain Guantánamo open, saying he would “load it up with some dangerous dudes”.

There are actually simply 15 prisoners on the facility, the smallest quantity because it opened 20 years in the past.