Fayiz Ahmad Yahia Suleiman was endorsed for exchange almost six years back by six U.S. offices - the Departments of Defense, State, Justice and Homeland Security, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
"The United States is extremely appreciative to the Government of Italy for its proceeded with help with shutting the confinement office at Guantanamo Bay," said Lee Wolosky, the U.S. exceptional agent for Guantanamo's conclusion, portraying the push to close the jail as a "common objective."
A Pentagon representative declined remark on whether the man would be liable to confinement in Italy and alluded that inquiry to the Italian government, which said it was going up against him "helpful grounds" however gave no further subtle elements.
The Yemeni man was captured by Pakistani police and exchanged to U.S. guardianship in December, 2001, which means he had been in U.S. detainment for over 14 years, as indicated by U.S. military archives posted online by the WikiLeaks site.
U.S. President Barack Obama, who had planned to close the jail amid his first year in office in 2009, revealed his arrangement in February went for closing the office. In any case, he confronts restriction from numerous Republican administrators and some kindred Democrats.
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| A soldier stands guard in a tower overlooking Camp Delta at Guantanamo Bay naval base in a December 31, 2009 file photo provided by the US Navy. |
The majority of the 78 detainees who stay at Guantanamo have been held without charge or trial for over 10 years, drawing worldwide judgment.
The Guantanamo detainees were gathered together abroad when the United States got to be involved in wars in Afghanistan and Iraq taking after the Sept. 11, 2001, assaults on New York and Washington.
The office, opened by Obama's Republican ancestor, George W. Hedge, came to symbolize forceful detainment hones that opened the United States to allegations of torment.
Obama's arrangement for covering the office calls for conveying the few dozen remaining detainees to greatest security penitentiaries in the United States. U.S. law bars such exchanges to the territory.
The United States has attempted to influence different countries to acknowledge the detainees in light of concerns they could dispatch assaults and by America's unwillingness to acknowledge them on the U.S. territory.
(Reporting by Arshad Mohammed; Additional reporting by Crispian Balmer in Rome and Matt Spetalnick in Washington; Editing by Mary Milliken and Peter Cooney)
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