More on yesterday’s story of their release. Kenyan Mohammed Abdul Malik Bajabu and Yemenis Omar Muhammad Ali al-Rammah and Suhayl al-Sharabi are also to be released.
[Garowe] The United States has approved the release of a Somali prisoner from Guantanamo Bay prison, over 17 years after his arrest and subsequent detention without trial, despite complaints from his family.
According to the Geneva Conventions, captured soldiers in uniform are held as prisoners of war until a signed peace treaty ends the war. Illegal combatants can be given a summary court martial by their captors or even more summarily shot in the field. President George W. Bush decided these particular captives ought to be exploited for their intelligence value...
Guled Hassan Duran, ...also known as Guleed Hassan Ahmed and Gouled Hassan Dourad, who insisted he did not belong in GITMO since he merely got paramilitary training in Afghanistan and fought Ethiopians in Mogadishu as a member of jihadi group al-Ittihad al-Islami (Islamic Union), founded by Somali mujahiddin returned from Afghanistan, which in turn evolved into Al Qaeeda-linked Al Shabaab in 2003. That the US government has him tagged as an Al Qaeda cell leader in Djibouti is clearly not worth noticing...
"I'm a simple, but well-armed, rustic!" 47, received the great news about his impending release on Monday during the 20th anniversary of the prison, which was first established in 2002 in Cuba to hold suspected murderous Moslems across the world.
He was arrested in 2004 in Djibouti by US authorities and was transferred to the facility where he has never been charged. He cannot return to his homeland under a congressional prohibition on the transfer of Guantánamo detainees to Somalia, Libya, Syria, and Yemen