The Guantanamo detention facility continues to shrink: A terrorist involved in Mombasa hotel attack and attempted downing of Arkia plane released as part of Guantanamo Bay prison downsizing.
The Pentagon announced the release of three of those held at the detention facility for terror suspects, including a suspect in the 2002 Mombasa terror attack. There are now 27 detainees remaining at the detention facility, compared to about 780 detainees at the peak of activity about two decades ago.
Today, the Pentagon announced that two Malaysians who were held for 21 years have been released back to their country after confessing to committing war crimes for an al-Qaeda-affiliated organization in the 2002 Bali bombing, in which 202 people were murdered. Adam.
The two, Muhammad Nazir bin Lap and Muhammad Farik bin Amin, were arrested along with Hambali, a leader of the Jemaah Islamiyah and the mastermind of the Bali bombing and other attacks in Indonesia, and confessed to helping him evade arrest. They were held at a secret CIA facility in Thailand and tortured before being sent to Guantanamo Bay in 2006.