| The Libyan take on this story from a few days ago. |
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
reported Monday that after a traumatic journey, the Libyans, who were inmates in Guantanamo and transferred to Senegal
... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees...
for permanent stay, apparently fell into the hands of a hard-line militia leader who has been accused of prisoner abuse ‐ and then they vanished.
Sources believe that Special Deterrence Force, which is controlling Mitiga airport in Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
and runs notorious detentions in a military base nearby the airport, tossed in the clink
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
Omar Abu Bakr and Salim Ghrebi when their Libyan Airlines plane touched down coming from Tunisia.
The Intercept reported on April 01 that former Libyan Guantanamo detainees, who were released in 2016 and sent to Senegal as part of the deal made by the US State Department, were facing deportation to Libya.
According to The Intercept, Abu Bakr and his
"If the US government told me two years ago that I would remain in Senegal temporarily, only to be sent to Libya after two years, regardless of the situation in Libya, I would have refused resettlement in Senegal. I would have even chosen to remain at Guantánamo over torture and death in a dungeon in Libya." Abu Bakr told The Intercept.