Guantanamo Closure: U.S Moves 15 Prisoners To Dubai; See their names

 Detainees inside the Guantanamo detention camp

According to Al-Jazeera report, the Pentagon has approved the transfer of 15 Gitmo prisoners to the United Arab Emirate is its effort closing down the United States Military Backed Detention camp established after the 9/11 World Trade Centre terror attacks. 

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The Pentagon said on Monday that 12 Yemenis and three Afghans, some of whom had been held for more than 14 years without charge, would settle in the UAE in the largest single transfer of Guantanamo detainees during President Barack Obama's administration.

The transferred detainees are;

Abd al-Muhsin Abd al-Rab Salih al-Busi
Abd al-Rahman Sulayman
Mohammed Nasir Yahi Khussrof Kazaz
Abdul Muhammad Ahmad Nassar al-Muhajari
Muhammad Ahmad Said al-Adahi
Abdel Qadir al-Mudafari
Mahmud Abd Al Aziz al-Mujahid
Saeed Ahmed Mohammed Abdullah Sarem Jarabh
Mohammed Kamin
Zahar Omar Hamis bin Hamdoun
Hamid al-Razak
Majid Mahmud Abdu Ahmed
Ayub Murshid Ali Salih
Obaidullah
Bashir Nasir Ali al-Marwalah

"The United States is grateful to the government of the United Arab Emirates for its humanitarian gesture and willingness to support ongoing US efforts to close Guantanamo," the Pentagon said in a statement.