Biden Releases Guantanamo Bay Prisoner Abdul Latif Nasir, First Release In Five Years
The Biden Administration has officially repatriated its first prisoner from Guantanamo Bay to Morrocco. Abdul Latif Nasir has been held at Guantanamo for the past 19 years without charge and has officially reunited with his family. The total number of prisoners is now 39. The U.S. has decided that Nasir’s imprisonment “no longer remained necessary to protect against a continuing significant threat.” The U.S. Naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba has been a controversial element of the war in terror since the George W. Bush administration started imprisoning suspected terrorists there after 9/11. ...