{"id":180003,"date":"2016-01-07T17:32:33","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T17:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=180003"},"modified":"2016-01-07T17:32:33","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T17:32:33","slug":"ex-guantanamo-detainee-happy-ghana-accepted-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=180003","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Guantanamo detainee ‘happy’ Ghana accepted him"},"content":{"rendered":"

The lawyer for the former Guantanamo Bay detainee, Mahmmoud Omar Mohammed Bin Atef, has said that his client is pleased to have been accepted by Ghana.<\/p>\n

Mohammed Bin Atef, was transferred to Ghana to be resettled following his 14-year incarceration at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”ZmVCNqIWwuG2xsqRbX7ET6CjUeKPiFkH”]Clarke told the New York Times that his client\u00a0had grown\u00a0become \u201cfrustrated\u201d with his detention\u00a0in the infamous prison for over a decade despite not being put before a court.<\/p>\n

He explained that the situation had forced\u00a0Bin Atef to ‘act out’\u00a0and say \u201cstupid things a long time ago,\u201d something his client had come to regret<\/p>\n

According to Clarke, Bin Atef’s demeanour had improved considerably \u00a0describing the ex detainee as\u00a0\u201cfriendly, nice guy\u201d who was \u201cpositive and has a good attitude.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ghana’s Foreign Ministry announced in a statement signed by Hanna Tetteh that the country\u00a0had agreed to provide humanitarian assistance<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0to persons from Rwanda, Syria and Yemen following the crisis in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

The United States confirmed the\u00a0transfer of Mahmud Umar Muhammad Bin Atef and Khalid Muhammad Salih Al-Dhuby to Ghana six years after it was approved and “a number of factors, including security issues” had been examined.<\/p>\n

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Mahmmoud Omar Mohammed Bin Atef, the 36-year-old Yemen citizen, and one of the two prisoners discharged by the United States from the Guantanamo Bay Prison to Ghana, is a one-time fighter for Osama Bin Laden, according a December 28, 2007 report by the US Department of Defense.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Reaction to the transfer of the two and the news that the country was prepared to accept refugees from Syria and Rwanda has been largely negative with several Ghanaians questioning the country’s ability to cater for these refugees in light of the current economic crisis.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Ghana Refugee Board has sought to calm some of those fears by announcing that the upkeep of some Syrian Refugees in Ghana will come at no cost to the tax payer<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n

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Foreign Minister Hanna Tetteh, stated that checks were made by national security operatives to ensure ex-Guantanamo detainees posed no security threat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In response to suggestions that the Guantanamo detainees might pose a threat to the country’s security, the Foreign Minister Hanna Tetteh stated that aside from the information provided by the US, Ghana’s security agencies made their own checks to assess any possible threat before the transfer was approved.<\/p>\n

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By: Edwin Kwakofi\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The lawyer for the former Guantanamo Bay detainee, Mahmmoud Omar Mohammed Bin Atef, has said that his client is pleased to have been accepted by Ghana. Mohammed Bin Atef, was transferred to Ghana to be resettled following his 14-year incarceration at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. [contextly_sidebar id=”ZmVCNqIWwuG2xsqRbX7ET6CjUeKPiFkH”]Clarke told the New York Times that his client\u00a0had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=180003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}