U.S. TO TRY FIVE YEMENI GITMO DETAINEES

WASHINGTON, May 17 (Saba) - The U.S. will start in this summer
trying five Yemeni detainees at the U.S. Guantanamo Bay in Cuba
including Ramzi Al-Shaibah, Walid Bin Atash and Abdul Rahim
Al-Nasheri.

The five had previously been tried by military commissions in the
U.S. that were already canceled.

Weeks ago, the U.S. released a Yemeni Gitmo detainee and sent him to
Spain. The release took place, according to the U.S. officials,
after Yasin was found cooperative with the authorities.

Meanwhile, Abdul Salam Al-Hila, another Yemeni detainee, has told
his family that he faced a new assassination attempt at the U.S. Bay
which the U.S. President Obama ordered to be closed as soon as
possible.

His brother said that they received a letter from Abdul Salam
telling them he had faced a new assassination plot arranged by the
jail officials.

Last year Al-Hila revealed an assassination plot he had faced at the
jail.

Separately, the release of the rest Yemeni detainees at Gitmo, who
account for almost half of the remaining detainees, is still
controversial as the U.S. wants to send them to a third country to
rehabilitate them amid fears the national rehabilitation programs
and centers can't ensure they would not regroup.

But Yemen insists on sending its people to their homeland, assuring
that it would do its best to ensure they would be well rehabilitated
and reintegrated into the society.

The U.S. has already released some Yemeni detainees but it refuse to
release the others, after it found out that those who were released
were back to terrorist groups posing threats to the U.S. national
security and economic interests.

FR