US transfers two Tunisian Guantanamo inmates to Italy
AFP
ROME - Two Tunisian Guantanamo inmates have been transferred by the United States to Italy where they will face trial, the Italian justice ministry announced Monday.
The two were identified Adel Ben Mabrouk and Riadh Ben Mohamed Nasri, and "were the subjects of Italian arrest warrants and will be tried in Italy," the ministry said.
Nasri -- captured by US troops in Afghanistan -- is wanted in Italy for aiding illegal immigration, association with criminals and links to terrorist acts committed between 1997 and 2001, the ANSA news agency said.
The two, according to prosecutors, were also part of a group that provided logistical support to a militant cell recruiting suicide attackers for operations in countries including Afghanistan.
Ben Mabrouk, the other detainee transferred to the northern Italian city of Milan, is suspected of being a member of an Islamist militant cell in the city, ANSA said.
Obama vowed during his first week in office in January this year that he would close Guantanamo within a year, saying that the prison camp does not adhere to US standards of human and civil rights.
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The two, according to prosecutors, were also part of a group that provided logistical support to a militant cell recruiting suicide attackers for operations in countries including Afghanistan.
Ben Mabrouk, the other detainee transferred to the northern Italian city of Milan, is suspected of being a member of an Islamist militant cell in the city, ANSA said.
Obama vowed during his first week in office in January this year that he would close Guantanamo within a year, saying that the prison camp does not adhere to US standards of human and civil rights.
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