Biden administration transfers first Guantanamo detainee to Morocco
A government panel cleared Abdul Latif Nasir for release in 2016, but the Moroccan detainee remained at the US prison during the Trump administration.
The United States has transferred a prisoner held in the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to his home country of Morocco, making him the first detainee under the Biden administration to be repatriated from the American naval base in Cuba.
On Monday the Department of Defense announced the transfer of Abdul Latif Nasir, 56, who was recommended for release under the Obama administration. In his Guantanamo profile, the US alleges that Nasir fought for several years with the Taliban on the front lines in Kabul and Bagram, Afghanistan and then at Tora Bora. He has been held without charge at the notorious US prison since 2002.
