It looks like Obama is trying to quietly shut down Guantanamo Bay while no one is looking.
Watch below:
Earlier this year, Uruguay said it had agreed to received the men – four Syrians, a Tunisian and a Palestinian – as a humanitarian gesture.
The six men were detained 12 years ago for alleged ties with al-Qaeda but never charged.
President Jose Mujica described said they had been subjected to “an atrocious kidnapping”.
The Pentagon identified the released detainees as Abu Wa’el Dhiab, Ali Husain Shaaban, Ahmed Adnan Ajuri, and Abdelahdi Faraj, from Syria; Mohammed Abdullah Taha Mattan, Palestinian; Adel bin Muhammad El Ouerghi, from Tunisia.
A lawyer for 43-year-old Abu Wa’el Dhiab said his client was government was grateful to the South American nation for taking him.
Is it a coincidence that this comes so close after Chuck Hagel was fired from his job as Secretary of Defense when it’s said that he disagreed with the speed at which Obama was trying to shut down Gitmo? Makes you wonder…