BREAKING NEWS:United States of America transfers 15 Guantanamo prisoners to UAE

                         
Fifteen Guantanamo Bay prisoners have been transferred to the United Arab Emirates, leaving 61 detainees at the notorious US military-run jail.
The Pentagon said that 12 Yemenis and three Afghans, some of whom had been held for more than 14 years without charge, would settle in the UAE in the largest single transfer of Guantanamo detainees during President Barack Obama's administration.

FULL LIST OF DETAINEE TRANSFERS:
Abd al-Muhsin Abd al-Rab Salih al-Busi
Abd al-Rahman Sulayman
Mohammed Nasir Yahi Khussrof Kazaz
Abdul Muhammad Ahmad Nassar al-Muhajari
Muhammad Ahmad Said al-Adahi
Abdel Qadir al-Mudafari
Mahmud Abd Al Aziz al-Mujahid
Saeed Ahmed Mohammed Abdullah Sarem Jarabh
Mohammed Kamin
Zahar Omar Hamis bin Hamdoun
Hamid al-Razak
Majid Mahmud Abdu Ahmed
Ayub Murshid Ali Salih
Obaidullah
Bashir Nasir Ali al-Marwalah

"The United States is grateful to the government of the United Arab Emirates for its humanitarian gesture and willingness to support ongoing US efforts to close Guantanamo," the Pentagon said in a statement.
Congress was notified of the transfers as required under US law, the Pentagon added.
Since the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York, about 780 inmates have been kept at Guantanamo.
Amnesty International USA, a rights group, welcomed the announcement as a sign that US President Barack Obama was serious about closing the controversial jail before he leaves office.  
Sultan Sooud al-Qassemi, a UAE-based political commentator, called the men "low-value detainees" and said the move was a "humanitarian gesture".
"It's a gesture of goodwill, not only to the US President but also to the Pentagon and the US government in general. Regardless of who becomes the next president, whether it's Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, the UAE is signalling a continuity in relations between the US and the United Arab Emirates."
Qassemi also said that there might be a "reintegration programme" that the detainees would undergo.
"These individuals have not been charged with any crime. They have been cleared for release, some of them for a number of years. They are low-value detainees," he added.