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