US to transfer Guantanamo prisoner to Yemen: report

Source: afp

AFP - The Obama administration plans to transfer a Guantanamo detainee to Yemen despite its ban on the repatriations due to security concerns in the Arab country, The Washington Post reported Saturday.

The administration's January decision on Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the prison camp where nearly half of the remaining inmates are from Yemen, cast further doubt on President Barack Obama's vow to shutter the center seen by the White House as a prime recruiting tool for radical Islamic groups.

But US District Judge Henry Kennedy Jr has forced the administration's hand in "emphatically" ordering Mohammed Odaini to be released back to his home country after concluding that no evidence linked him to Al-Qaeda.

Read more: http://www.france24.com/en/20100626-us-transfer-guantanamo-prisoner-yemen-report

Will any of them ever see their families again?

Forked over to us for some reason or other.

The case against him was never anything to hang a hat on. He should've been released years ago.