The Pentagon repatriated a Moroccan man who had been held without charges at the notorious facility since 2002. The move officially resumes the unfinished Obama-era effort to empty and close down the Guantanamo Bay detention center.
The United States announced the transfer of a detainee from Guantánamo Bay, the first of this type of repatriation to occur during the Biden administration, as well as a signal of its intent to resume the effort to empty and close the notorious U.S. facility. The move also comes as the U.S. has begun withdrawing military troops from Afghanistan, just as the war in that nation is approaching its 20th year. “The Biden administration remains dedicated to a deliberate and thorough process focused on responsibly reducing the detainee population and ultimately closing the Guantánamo facility,” a Pentagon official told reporters on Monday.
