The US military announced the repatriation of Ahmed Bin Saleh Bel Bacha, an Algerian detainee at Guantanamo who attended Abu Hamza’s radical Finsbury Park mosque in the UK before fighting in Afghanistan for al Qaeda. A parole board review concluded that Yemeni detainee Abdel Malik al-Rahabi, a former bodyguard for Osama bin Laden and an associate of the head of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, should remain at Guantanamo indefinitely for security reasons. The Pentagon is calling for another round of base closures due to excess capacity in each of the three branches.
