16 Guantanamo Detainees Sent To Saudi Arabia BY JOSH WHITE - The Washington Post July 17, 2007 URL: http://www.nysun.com/article/58565 WASHINGTON - The Defense Department said yesterday that 16 detainees from the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been transferred to their home nation of Saudi Arabia in recent days, a sizable handover of "enemy combatants" that is part of the American government's effort to empty the facility. The detainees were transferred to the custody of the Saudi Arabian government and arrived in Riyadh yesterday, according to Pentagon officials. Approximately 75 detainees have been sent to Saudi Arabia in the past few years as part of negotiations between the two governments. There are about 50 Saudi Arabian detainees remaining at Guantanamo. The transfer leaves about 360 foreign detainees in Guantanamo, about 80 of whom have been cleared for release or transfer, according to the American military. Military prosecutors hope to bring as many as 80 more to trial in military commissions, which are currently stalled by legal challenges to the process and a pending Supreme Court review. "We are trying to reduce the population there," a Pentagon spokesman, Navy Commander J. D. Gordon, said. "There are certain risks you take with every transfer, and we're trying to ensure that detainees can be transferred back to their home countries. Today's was a fairly large group. We're down to 360, so we're making progress there." . <http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=97359714/grpId=11648958/grpspId=1705447214/msgI d=37671/stime=1184675833/nc1=3848621/nc2=4699083/nc3=4699086> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
