Obama Administration Frees Three More Gitmo Detainees

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Obama sends Alla Ali Bin Ali Ahmed home to Al-Qaeda haven Yemen

The Department of Justice Saturday evening announced that two detainees had been transferred from Guantanamo Bay to Ireland,and one had been transferred to Yemen.

There are more than 220 detainees remaining at the prison. In the last couple months,the White House has made it increasingly clear that the President will not make his self-stated January 22,2010 deadline to close to prison.

Alla Ali Bin Ali Ahmed,a native of Yemen,was captured in Pakistan in 2002 and returned to Yemen today. The Yemeni Embassy to the US issued a statement saying the country welcomed,"with enthusiasm,the release and transfer of its citizen."

The Obama administration did not name the detainees released to Ireland. "Pursuant to a request from the government of Ireland,the identities of these detainees are being withheld for security and privacy reasons,"read a statement from the Justice Department. Amnesty International has been lobbying Ireland to accept Uzbek national Oybek Jamoldinivich Jabbarov,and another Uzbekh.

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