Pakistani Brothers Freed From Guantanamo Prison After 20 Years, Sent Home
Two Pakistani sisters, Abdul and Mohammed Rabbani, have been freed from the US military captivity at Guantanamo Bay after further than 20 times in detention and repatriated, the Pentagon said Thursday.
Abdul Rabbani, who was born in 1967, is believed to have been one of the oldest convicts at the installation on a US base in Cuba.
US officers indicted him of working for avowed9/11 architect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed( KSM) and operating an Al- Qaeda safe house in Karachi, but his detainee assessment indicates he wasn’t believed to have had” specific sapience into Al- Qaeda functional plans.”
Mohammed Rabbani, born in 1969, was indicted of retaining his aged family into revolutionist circles. He’s believed to have organized trip and finances for KSM and Abd al- Rahim al- Nashiri, the architect of the October 2000 self-murder bombing of the USS Cole bullet destroyer, which left 17 US mariners dead.
The brace were arrested in Karachi in September 2002 by Pakistani authorities, according to a Senate intelligence commission report that also names Mohammed Rabbani as one of 17 detainees subordinated to torture at overseas CIA secret incarcerations, known as black spots.
Both men arrived at Guantanamo Bay in 2004 and were approved for release in 2021, the Defense Department said in a statement.
Their release brings to 32 the number of detainees left at Guantanamo Bay. Of those, 18 are eligible for transfer, three are eligible for review, nine are on trial in US military commissions and two have been condemned.
