Two Detainees Being Held in Guantanamo Bay Are Headed to Other Countries
Two more detainees being held by the U.S. Military at the naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are now headed to other countries, willing to take them in. Part of President Obama’s plan to shutter the facility.
FOX’s Eben Brown reports from Miami:
Two men spending 15 and 30 years each in the prison at Gitmo are now headed to countries in Central Europe which have offered to take them. Both were said to have been picked for release based on humanitarian grounds.
One prisoner, Tariq Mahmoud Ahmed Al Sawah is 58 and is said to be in poor health, he’ll be held by the Bosnian government. 41-year-old Abdallah Ali Al Suwaydi heads to Montenegro.
A Pentagon spokesman says there are still 91 prisoners left.
In Miami, Eben Brown, FOX News.