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WASHINGTON, DC (CNN/WIBW)-- Senator Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) is blasting the transfer of five Guantanamo Bay detainees. The Department of Defense announced the transfer in a press release Wednesday.
"The Obama Administration is also simultaneously attempting to rewrite history by refusing to use the term ‘extreme Islam,’” Roberts said. “We have an extreme and murderous ideology on our hands, especially in Yemen and until this President is willing to be the leader we need against this global threat, our nation is at risk."
Al Khadr Abdallah Muhammad Al Yafi, Fadel Hussein Saleh Hentif, Abd Al-Rahman Abdullah Au Shabati and Mohammed Ahmed Salam were sent to Oman. Akhmed Abdul Qadir was transferred to Estonia.
It is believed to be the first time either country has accepted Guantanamo Bay transfers.
The detainees were not released to their home country of Yemen because the government there -- under pressure from al Qaeda and Houthi militants -- cannot ensure they won't join al Qaeda elements. The United States has been trying to find countries to take on the detainees who will provide security and human rights assurances for them.
There are currently 122 prisoners left at Guantanamo Bay, including 79 Yemeni men, according to documents from the Pentagon and Joint Task Force Guantanamo.
The overall number of detainees has dropped from 800, when the facility was first repurposed to hold captives from the United States' war on terror.
The transfer is part of the White House's ongoing effort to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center. President Barack Obama stated in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union" back in December that he's "going to be doing everything I can to close it."
Full Text of Sen. Pat Roberts:
"The release of five Guantanamo detainees this week is outrageous when this Administration cannot be bothered to show up in Paris to stand with the world against terrorism. The Obama Administration is also simultaneously attempting to rewrite history by refusing to use the term ‘extreme Islam,’” Roberts said. “We have an extreme and murderous ideology on our hands, especially in Yemen and until this President is willing to be the leader we need against this global threat, our nation is at risk.
“That is why I was proud to cosponsor a bill yesterday to stop this Administration from further detainee transfers to ensure Al Qaeda, ISIL and other extremist groups are impeded, where possible, from recruiting more fighters. We face recidivism rates at over 30 percent. Now is the time to put national security above politics.
“Just yesterday the FBI thwarted an ISIL inspired terrorist attack on the U.S. Capitol. This act of terror, coupled with the terrorist attacks in Paris should be convincing arguments to halt the transfer of detainees."
The bill S.165, The Detaining Terrorists to Protect America Act was introduced by U.S. Sens Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) John McCain (R-Ariz.) Richard Burr (R-NC) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) that prohibits for two years the transfer to the United States of detainees designated medium- or high-risk. It would also ban transfers to Yemen, where many of the 127 remaining Guantánamo detainees are from.
The status of this act can be followed by clicking here.
Senator Roberts had also fought the transfer of detainees to the mainland and stopped a plan that would have housed terror detainees at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas.
WASHINGTON, DC (CNN/WIBW)-- Senator Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) is blasting the transfer of five Guantanamo Bay detainees. The Department of Defense announced the transfer in a press release Wednesday.
"The Obama Administration is also simultaneously attempting to rewrite history by refusing to use the term ‘extreme Islam,’” Roberts said. “We have an extreme and murderous ideology on our hands, especially in Yemen and until this President is willing to be the leader we need against this global threat, our nation is at risk."
Al Khadr Abdallah Muhammad Al Yafi, Fadel Hussein Saleh Hentif, Abd Al-Rahman Abdullah Au Shabati and Mohammed Ahmed Salam were sent to Oman. Akhmed Abdul Qadir was transferred to Estonia.
It is believed to be the first time either country has accepted Guantanamo Bay transfers.
The detainees were not released to their home country of Yemen because the government there -- under pressure from al Qaeda and Houthi militants -- cannot ensure they won't join al Qaeda elements. The United States has been trying to find countries to take on the detainees who will provide security and human rights assurances for them.
There are currently 122 prisoners left at Guantanamo Bay, including 79 Yemeni men, according to documents from the Pentagon and Joint Task Force Guantanamo.
The overall number of detainees has dropped from 800, when the facility was first repurposed to hold captives from the United States' war on terror.
The transfer is part of the White House's ongoing effort to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center. President Barack Obama stated in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union" back in December that he's "going to be doing everything I can to close it."
Full Text of Sen. Pat Roberts:
"The release of five Guantanamo detainees this week is outrageous when this Administration cannot be bothered to show up in Paris to stand with the world against terrorism. The Obama Administration is also simultaneously attempting to rewrite history by refusing to use the term ‘extreme Islam,’” Roberts said. “We have an extreme and murderous ideology on our hands, especially in Yemen and until this President is willing to be the leader we need against this global threat, our nation is at risk.
“That is why I was proud to cosponsor a bill yesterday to stop this Administration from further detainee transfers to ensure Al Qaeda, ISIL and other extremist groups are impeded, where possible, from recruiting more fighters. We face recidivism rates at over 30 percent. Now is the time to put national security above politics.
“Just yesterday the FBI thwarted an ISIL inspired terrorist attack on the U.S. Capitol. This act of terror, coupled with the terrorist attacks in Paris should be convincing arguments to halt the transfer of detainees."
The bill S.165, The Detaining Terrorists to Protect America Act was introduced by U.S. Sens Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) John McCain (R-Ariz.) Richard Burr (R-NC) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) that prohibits for two years the transfer to the United States of detainees designated medium- or high-risk. It would also ban transfers to Yemen, where many of the 127 remaining Guantánamo detainees are from.
The status of this act can be followed by clicking here.
Senator Roberts had also fought the transfer of detainees to the mainland and stopped a plan that would have housed terror detainees at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas.
