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A review board set up to evaluate the cases of the remaining detainees held at Guantanamo has recommended that one of them be transferred.
The detainee, Ali Ahmad Mohamed al Razihi, has been held in Cuba since early 2002. He was a member of a group dubbed the “Dirty 30” by US officials. Members of the group, which included Osama bin Laden’s bodyguards, were captured in Pakistan after fleeing Afghanistan in late 2001.
Razihi was described as a “high” risk to the US, its interests, and its allies in a leaked Joint Task Force Guantanamo (JTF-GTMO) threat assessment dated June 30, 2008. JTF-GTMO also recommended that Razihi remain in detention.
The Guantanamo Review Task Force, which was set up by President Obama to review the detainee population, also recommended that Razihi remain in US custody. In January 2010, Razihi was one of 48 detainees the task force slated for indefinite military detention, meaning he was considered too dangerous to release or transfer, but also not a candidate for prosecution.
But the interagency Periodic Review Board, which regularly reviews the status of detainees, has now determined otherwise. In an unclassified summary released on April 23, the board said that Razihi’s detention “is no longer necessary to protect against a continuing significant threat to the security of the United States.”
The board considered Razihi’s “plans for the future and commitment not to repeat past mistakes,” finding him “credible on both issues.” The board also took into consideration Razihi’s “well-established, educated family with the willingness and ability to support him upon his return” to his native Yemen. Although the board noted that Razihi could be transferred to a third country, it “strongly” recommended that he be returned to Yemen, where he could rejoin his family.
The board also cited Razihi’s “lack of ties to at-large extremists,” as well as his “largely peaceful, non-violent approach to detention and his positive attitude toward future potential participation in a rehabilitation program,” as reasons for transferring him.
Still, the board said that Razihi’s transfer to Yemen should be made “with the standard security assurances,” noting that the security situation in the country must improve and a rehabilitation program be established.
Many of the detainees remaining at Guantanamo are from Yemen, which is home to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), one of the strongest branches of al Qaeda. Since 2009, the insurgency in Yemen and AQAP’s attempted attacks on the US have complicated efforts to transfer more detainees there.