Reduction of Guaanamo prisoners to 26 people with the transfer of a member of al-Qaeda to Tunisia
One of the members of Al-Qaeda, who was transferred to this place since the first day of the opening of the Guaanamo prison, was returned to his own coury, Tunisia, and now there are 26 people incarcerated in this prison.
According to Isna, 59-year-old Reza bin Saleh El-Yazidi spe several years in this prison because no agreeme was reached to return or relocate him.
According to the New York Times, he was never tried in a court-martial and his transfer to Tunisia was approved a decade ago.
The man’s airlift to Tunisia in a secretive operation was completed 11 mohs after the US Departme of Defense notified Congress that an agreeme had been reached to bring him back to Tunisia. The Peagon has not provided any details on the security arrangemes surrounding the Guaanamo detainee’s return.
Elizidi’s transfer is the fourth transfer in the last two weeks and the latest efforts of the Biden administration to reduce the prison population in this prison, which held 40 prisoners when Biden took office. Elizidi’s departure leaves 26 detainees, 14 of whom are ready to be transferred to other couries based on diplomatic and security agreemes.
Elizidi is the last of dozens of Tunisians who were once in Guaanamo, and most of them were captured in Afghanistan or Pakistan after the attacks of September 11, 2001 and were transferred to this prison as terrorist suspects.
According to documes leaked in 2007, Pakistani forces arrested Elizaidi near the border with Afghanistan in December 2001, when he was among a group of 30 men trying to escape from the Tora Bora war zone. Some of them were the bodyguards of Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda.
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