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                 US Transfers 5 Yemenis From Guantanamo to UAE

   by VOA News

   The United States has transferred five Yemeni detainees being held at
   Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the United Arab Emirates.

   The five low-level detainees had been held at the U.S. military prison
   for more than a decade. None had been charged with a crime.

   The transfers reduced the detainee population at the prison to 107,
   including 48 cleared for repatriation or resettlement in a third
   country.

   Adil Said al-Busayss, Khalid Abd al-Qadasi, Ali Ahmad Muhammad
   al-Rahizi, Sulaiman al-Nahdi and Fahmi al-Sani were captured in 2001 by
   Pakistani and Afghan forces and eventually turned over to the United
   States.

   The conflict in Yemen has made it impossible for the Obama
   administration to transfer detainees from there to their homeland,
   instead of having to negotiate resettlement within other countries.

   President Obama has made closing the prison a priority, saying that
   militants use it as a recruiting tool, and that it has harmed the image
   of the United States.
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