Karen Greenberg was quoted in an AOL article about the Trump administration’s possible transfer of a prisoner from the Guantanamo Bay detention center to Saudi Arabia.
Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed Haza al-Darbi, a 42-year-old Saudi citizen who has been held at the U.S. military detention center in Cuba since 2002, could be transferred to Saudi Arabia in coming days.
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No other Gitmo detainee has a plea deal with the military commission that specifies release, but five other detainees were cleared for release by Periodic Review Boards under the Obama administration.
That doesn’t mean the Trump administration will release them. “There are no indications that they are going to be released,” said Karen Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham University.