MIAMI — A prisoner at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre has been sent back to his native Saudi Arabia to serve out the remainder of a 13-year sentence, making him the first detainee to leave the U.S. base in Cuba since President Donald Trump took office. The Pentagon announced the transfer of Ahmed Mohammed al-Darbi in a brief statement Wednesday. He had originally been scheduled to return home as part of a plea deal no later than Feb. 20. He provided testimony against the defendant in the Cole attack as well as against a Guantanamo prisoner charged with overseeing attacks on coalition forces in Afghanistan in 2002-2006. “It is up to the courts, and the public, to challenge the Trump administration’s ugly Guantanamo policy,” it said.

Source: National Post May 02, 2018 20:49 UTC