LESSONS FOR GHANA: Belgium Arrests Two Ex-Guantanamo Inmates On Jihad Terrorism Charges
Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. He was flown back to Belgium in April 2005 and later released after spending time in a Belgian prison.In December, 2015, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) released a new video featuring a former Guantanamo detainee, Ibrahim Qosi, who is also known as Sheikh Khubayb al Sudani.
In July 2010, Qosi pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy and material support for terrorism before a military commission.
His plea was part of a deal in which he agreed to cooperate with prosecutors during his remaining time in US custody.
Qosi was transferred to his home country of Sudan two years later, in July 2012.
He joined AQAP in 2014 and became one of its leaders. Qosi and other AQAP commanders discussed their time waging jihad at length in the video, entitled “Guardians of Sharia.”
In April, 2015, an ex-Guantanamo Bay detainee was arrested in Uganda for questioning over his possible role in the killing of a top prosecutor.
A decade ago, the U.S. released three hardened Moroccan militants from Guantanamo and turned them over to the Moroccan government on the assumption they wouldn’t return to the battlefield.
They wound up leading one of the most violent Islamist groups fighting in Syria’s civil war.
By January 2014, about 29% of 614 detainees released from the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba had returned to violence, according to the Director of America’s National Intelligence.
The Director of National Intelligence in America released a report in March, 2015 indicating that the United States has “confirmed” that 116 detainees “transferred” out of the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, subsequently reengaged in terrorist or insurgent activities.
The report also warned: “Based on trends identified during the past eleven years, we assess that some detainees currently at GTMO will seek to reengage in terrorist or insurgent activities after they are transferred.”
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