WASHINGTON, June 17 (Reuters) – Two Yemeni men held at the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba since 2004 have been cleared for transfer to another country, a U.S. review board determined last week, bringing the prison back into the spotlight.
Abd al-Salam al-Hilah and Sharqawi Abdu Ali al-Hajj were both cleared for transfer as President Joe Biden’s administration has revived a goal of closing the prison that came to symbolize the excesses of the U.S. “war on terror.”
The United States now must seek to find countries willing to take the detainees.
Al-Hajj is a career jihadist who acted as…
