This month, Obama has sent Osama bin Laden’s alleged bodyguard to the country of Montenegro.
Abdel Malik Ahmed Abdel Wahab al-Rahabi has been held at Gitmo for 14 years but will now get a change of scenery, with the administration deciding that the bin Laden associate is no longer a threat to the U.S. and recommending his transfer.
According to NBC News, the Department of Defense insists that the transfer is “consistent with appropriate security and humane treatment measures.”
Montenegro, a small country situated between Bosnia, and Herzegovina, and Albania, and across from Italy on the Adriatic Sea, said it would release al-Rahabi once it takes custody of him, allowing him to “return to his family.”
Pentagon documents say the prisoner is related to bin Laden by marriage and was trained to hijack airliners and fly a suicide mission in conjunction with the 9/11 attacks. For whatever reason, the detainee never committed to the suicide mission.
Closing Guantanamo was one of Obama’s main campaign promises, but in spite of his promises and the Executive Order he immediately issued upon entering the White House, Obama never did shut the facility down. Instead, he began a campaign of transferring prisoners from the facility to nations that volunteered to take them.
Since he began his program of freeing prisoners by transferring them, well over 100 have simply returned to the battlefields.