{"id":209194,"date":"2025-01-06T21:56:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T21:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/06\/u-s-sends-11-guantanamo-prisoners-to-oman-to-start-new-lives\/"},"modified":"2025-01-06T21:56:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T21:56:43","slug":"u-s-sends-11-guantanamo-prisoners-to-oman-to-start-new-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/06\/u-s-sends-11-guantanamo-prisoners-to-oman-to-start-new-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Sends 11 Guant\u00e1namo Prisoners to Oman to Start New Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The U.S. military sent 11 Yemeni prisoners at Guant\u00e1namo Bay to Oman to restart their lives, the Pentagon said on Monday, leaving just 15 men in the prison in a bold push at end of the Biden administration that has left the prison population smaller than at any time in its more than 20-year history.<\/p>\n

None of the released men had been charged with crimes during their two decades of detention. Now, all but six of the remaining prisoners have been charged with or convicted<\/a> of war crimes.<\/p>\n

There were 40 detainees when President Biden took office and resurrected an Obama administration effort to close the prison.<\/p>\n

The Pentagon carried out the secret operation in the early hours of Monday, days before Guant\u00e1namo\u2019s most notorious prisoner, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, was scheduled to plead guilty to plotting the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in exchange for a life sentence<\/a> rather than face a death-penalty trial.<\/p>\n

The handoff had been in the works for about three years. An initial plan to conduct the transfer in October 2023 was derailed by opposition from Congress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n