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Guantanamo Bay prisoner Sufiyan Barhoumi was transferred to Algeria, the Pentagon announced Saturday, leaving 37 detainees at the detention facility.
Barhoumi, a 48-year-old Algeria native, had been held at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility for 20 years.
FILE – In this photo reviewed by U.S. military officials, the sun sets behind the closed Camp X-Ray detention facility, on April 17, 2019, in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. A Saudi prisoner at the Guantanamo Bay detention center who was suspected of trying to join the 9/11 hijackers has been sent back to his home country for treatment for mental illness. The Department of Defense says Mohammad Ahmad al-Qahtani was flown back to Saudi Arabia from the U.S. base in Cuba after a review board concluded he could be safely released after 20 years in custody.
((AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File))
He had been awaiting release for nearly six years when the multi-agency Periodic Review Board determined on August 9, 2016, that detaining Barhoumi “was no longer necessary” to protect against a continuing significant threat to national security, according to the Department of Defense.
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Shayana Kadidal, senior managing attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, has been visiting Barhoumi at Guantanamo Bay for the last 12 years and celebrated the news Saturday that Barhoumi was finally home with his mom and siblings in Algeria.
“I’m overjoyed,” Kadidal told Fox News Digital on Saturday. “I’ve known him, and I’ve known his family. They’re all good people. A lot of times guys were damaged before they got into Guantanamo, and you kind of worry that whatever happens after they get out won’t be good.
“With him, I just don’t have that kind of worry. I know he’s going to land on his feet, and he’s going to have a good life.”
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