US Transfers Guantanamo Detainee To Algeria
Ahmed Belbacha, 44, was cleared for transfer by a task force created to review inmates' cases by a 2009 executive order,
Via AFP:
The Pentagon said it had transferred an inmate from the Guantanamo prison back home to Algeria, after holding him at the facility for 12 years without a trial.
The move brought the number of detainees at the military prison down to 154, as President Barack Obama tries to make good on a promise to close the controversial detention camp at a US naval base in southeast Cuba.
Ahmed Belbacha, 44, was cleared for transfer by a task force created to review inmates' cases by a 2009 executive order, the Pentagon said in a statement.
The task force "conducted a comprehensive review of this cas...