White House transfers six Gitmo detainees to Oman overnight

In 2008, a DoD assessment of each of the six prisoners’ cases deemed them all “high risk” and “likely to pose a threat to the U.S., its interests, and allies.” Nonetheless, all six were cleared to move in 2010 by the Guantanamo Review Task Force. Between them, they were imprisoned in Cuba for 78 years.

The six include Idris Ahmed Abdu Qader Idris, a Yemeni in his mid-30s. Thought to be a bodyguard for Osama bin Laden shortly before the 9/11 attacks, he also recruited for the terrorist group and was connected to a Salafist group in Yemen, according to DoD’s 2008 assessment, as posted on the New York Times’ Guantanamo docket. He is also thought to have received “advanced training” in Afghanistan.

The Pentagon’s assessment of another transferred detainee, Sharaf Ahmad Muhammad Masud, also in his mid-30s, said, “If released without rehabilitation, close supervision and means to successfully reintegrate into his society as a law abiding citizen, it is assessed detainee would seek out prior associates.”