Events

Impact of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's alleged attempted suicide bombing

Repatriation negotiations

Repatriated detainees

List of Yemeni detainees in Guantanamo

See also

References

1. ^^abcd"Citizens of Yemen".The New York Times. Retrieved2015-11-05.
2. ^Michael Melia (January 11, 2008)."Yemenis now biggest group at Guantanamo".San Jose Mercury. Retrieved2008-01-25.
3. ^Marimow, Ann (October 20, 2016)."Appeals court upholds conspiracy conviction of Guantanamo Bay detainee".The Washington Post. RetrievedOctober 24, 2016.(registration required)
4. ^"Yemen to Inspect Condition of 21 Yemeni Detainees at Guantanamo".Yemen Times. 3 February 2002. Archived fromthe original on August 25, 2005. Retrieved2008-05-05.
5. ^Mark Falkoff (March 12, 2008)."Guantánamo Attorneys Say Detainees Will Not Be Tortured If Returned to Yemen".Center for Constitutional Rights. Retrieved2008-05-11.
6. ^Nigerian in aircraft attack linked to London mosque, independent.co.uk. Accessed 16 January 2024.
7. ^"Following Path of Least Resistance, Terrorists Turn Yemen Into Poor Man's Afghanistan".Fox News. 2009-12-27.Archived from the original on 2009-12-30.'They should stay there. They should not go back to Yemen,' Hoekstra said. 'If they go back to Yemen, we will very soon find them back on the battlefield going after Americans and other western interests.'
8. ^Sudeep Reddy (2009-12-27)."Lawmakers Focus on Yemen in Wake of Attempted Bombing".The Wall Street Journal.Archived from the original on 2010-01-16.The 23-year-old suspect in the botched attack, Umar Farouk Abdulmuttalab of Nigeria, allegedly told U.S. officials that he received his explosive device in Yemen and learned to use it there.
9. ^"Lieberman: The United States Must Pre-Emptively Act In Yemen".The Huffington Post. 2009-12-27. Archived fromthe original on 2010-01-03.In his appearance on 'Fox News Sunday', Lieberman also argued that the botched attack should compel the Obama administration to abandon efforts to transfer suspected-terrorists out of the holding facility at Guantanamo Bay, saying that the complex is now well above international standards.
10. ^"Gitmo transfer to Yemen in doubt".United Press International. 2009-12-27.Archived from the original on 2012-10-21.'I'd, at a minimum, say that whatever we were about to do we'd at least have to scrub (those plans) again from top to bottom,' said House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss.
11. ^Josh Gerstein (2009-12-27)."Bomb plot complicates Gitmo plan".Politico. Archived fromthe original on 2009-12-31.'Yesterday just highlights the fact that sending this many people back—or any people back—to Yemen right now is a really bad idea,' said Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.), the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee. 'It's just dumb….If you made a list of what the three dumbest countries would be to send people back to, Yemen would be on all the lists.'
12. ^"Yemen refuses extraditing Guantanamo detainees to third state".Yemen Post. 2012-11-13.Archived from the original on 2012-11-14."Saleh demanded $200 million in return for receiving the Yemeni detainees, but the US offered him only $20 million. The two sides could not reach an agreement to release the detainees by then," the US officials told Hadi.
13. ^"Yemen to try fighters coming from Iraq, ex-Guantanamo prisoners".Kuwait News Agency. January 26, 2006. Retrieved2008-05-09.^{[dead link]}
14. ^Mohammed Al-Qadhi (June 21, 2004)."Advocates quit again: Court bans publishing hearings of 15 al-Qaeda suspects' tribunal, military trial proceedings claimed".Yemen Times. Archived fromthe original on August 24, 2005. Retrieved2008-05-05.
15. ^"Gitmo stalemate for Yemeni detainees: Home country refuses to lock them up; detention center enters 7th year".NBC News. January 11, 2008. Retrieved2008-05-05.
16. ^Kathy Gannon (July 4, 2007)."Yemen Employs New Terror Approach".The Washington Post. Retrieved2008-05-05.There are more men from Yemen held at Guantanamo Bay than from any other country.
17. ^Andrew Mc Gregor (May 10, 2007)."Yemen and the U.S.: Different Approaches to the War on Terrorism". Vol. 5, no. 9.Global Terrorism Analysis. Archived fromthe original on 2008-02-14. Retrieved2008-05-09.
18. ^"U.S. intends to hand over 70 Yemeni Guantanamo detainees".www.alsahwanet.net. June 7, 2008. Retrieved2008-06-07.^{[permanent dead link]}
19. ^"Yemen plans rehabilitation program for Guantanamo returnees".yemenonline.info. June 7, 2008. Archived fromthe original on March 8, 2011. Retrieved2008-06-01.
20. ^^abcdefghCharlie Savage (2016-01-14)."Guantánamo Population Drops to 93 after 10 Prisoners Go to Oman".The New York Times. Retrieved2016-01-14.Oman, which shares a border with Yemen, also took in 10 lower-level detainees in 2015. Its acceptance of 20 men over the past 13 months has significantly aided the Obama administration's goal of repatriating or resettling all the men who have been recommended for transfer, most of whom have been languishing with that status since at least 2009 when a six-agency task force unanimously approved letting them go.
21. ^^abcdefghCarol Rosenberg (2017-01-16)."Victims of mistaken identity among the 10 sent from Guantánamo to Oman".Miami Herald.Archived from the original on 2017-01-18.A Pentagon statement did not explain why the Department of Defense chose to wait to identify the 10 men for more than a day after the Sultanate of Oman announced it had taken them in as "temporary" residents "in consideration to their humanitarian situation."
22. ^^abcdefghi"US sends nine Yemeni Guantanamo inmates to Saudi Arabia".Al Jazeera. 2016-04-16. Retrieved2016-04-17.The United States has transferred nine Yemeni men to Saudi Arabia from the US military prison at Guantanamo, including an inmate who had been on a hunger strike since 2007, US officials said.
23. ^^abcdefghiSteve Almasy, Tom Kludt (2016-04-16)."Nine Guantanamo detainees transferred to Saudi Arabia".CNN. Retrieved2016-04-17.It also comes ahead of Obama's planned trip to Saudi Arabia next week.
24. ^^abcdefghi"US transfers nine Yemeni inmates from Guantanamo to Saudi Arabia as closure programme accelerated".The Daily Telegraph. 2016-04-16. Retrieved2016-04-17.Saturday's release marks the largest transfer since 10 Yemenis were sent to Oman in January. It is the first time Saudi Arabia has taken any former Guantanamo inmates.
25. ^^abcdefghijklCamila Domonoske (2016-08-16)."15 Guantanamo Bay Detainees Transferred To United Arab Emirates".National Public Radio.Two of the Afghan prisoners — Mohammed Kamin and Obaidallah, who only has one name — had been briefly charged in a military commission, The Miami Herald reports. The war crimes prosecutor dropped those charges.
26. ^^abcdefghijklBenjamin Wittes (2016-08-16)."A Big Guantanamo Transfer: Progress Towards the Site's Obsolescence".Lawfare.
27. ^^abcde"Five Guantanamo Yemeni inmates sent to Oman and Estonia".BBC News. 2015-01-14.Archived from the original on 2015-01-15.The five men - in their 30s and 40s - were cleared for release since at least 2009, but US officials ruled out their return to Yemen, where the government is battling al-Qaeda rebels.
28. ^^abcdeMargot Williams."Guantanamo timeline 2015".The New York Times.Archived from the original on 2015-01-15.
29. ^^abcdef"IMMEDIATE RELEASE, Release No: NR-235-15, June 13, 2015, Detainee Transfer Announced".United States Department of Defense. 2015-06-13.Archived from the original on 2015-06-13.The United States is grateful to the Government of Oman for its humanitarian gesture and willingness to support ongoing U.S. efforts to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. The United States coordinated with the Government of Oman to ensure these transfers took place consistent with appropriate security and humane treatment measures.
30. ^Carol Rosenberg (2016-06-22)."Another Yemeni 'forever prisoner' at Guantánamo is cleared for release".Miami Herald.Archived from the original on 2016-06-03. Retrieved2016-06-23.
31. ^"Montenegro receives another person within humanitarian programme of re-socialisation of prisoners from Guantanamo".Government of Montenegro. 2016-06-22.Archived from the original on 2016-06-23.
32. ^^abcdCharlie Savage (2017-01-05)."4 Yemeni Detainees at Guantánamo Are Transferred to Saudi Arabia".New York Times.Washington DC. Retrieved2017-01-05.The Pentagon announced on Thursday that it had transferred four Yemeni detainees from the wartime prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to Saudi Arabia, beginning an expected flurry of transfers in the waning days of the Obama administration.
33. ^^abcdeCarol Rosenberg (2015-11-16)."U.S. sends 5 Guantánamo detainees to the United Arab Emirates".Miami Herald.With Congress pushing stricter restrictions on prisoner transfers, the Pentagon this weekend released five Yemenis from the prison camps at Guantánamo to resettle in the United Arab Emirates, one of theArab states of the Persian Gulf. None of the captives had ever been charged with a crime.
34. ^Carol Rosenberg (2016-07-10)."Guantánamo downsizes again — Yemeni goes to Italy for resettlement".Miami Herald.Archived from the original on 2016-07-11. Retrieved2016-07-10.U.S. troops delivered a long-cleared Yemeni detainee to Italy over the weekend, the Pentagon disclosed Sunday, in a downsizing of the detention to 78 or fewer captives.
35. ^"Yemeni Guantánamo Bay inmate transferred to Italy, US says".The Guardian. 2016-07-10.Archived from the original on 2016-07-10. Retrieved2016-07-11.The United States said on Sunday it had transferred a Yemeni inmate from the Guantánamo Bay prison to Italy, bringing the number of detainees at the US naval base in Cuba to 78.
36. ^While other sites state he was sent to Saudi Arabia, theNew York Times reports his host country is unknown.
37. ^Margot Williams (2008-11-03)."Guantanamo Docket: Tarek Ali Abdullah Ahmed Baada".The New York Times. Retrieved2016-04-17.He was transferred to an undetermined country on April 16, 2016.
38. ^Margot Williams (18 May 2021)."Guantanamo timeline 2016".The New York Times.
39. ^Charlie Savage (2016-12-04)."Guantánamo Detainee Is Sent to Cape Verde in First Transfer Since Trump Victory".New York Times. Retrieved2016-12-04.Mr. Balzuhair is the second detainee that Cape Verde has resettled. In 2010, it took in a low-level detainee from Syria.

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