The Obama administration has moved five additional prisoners out of the Guantanamo Bay detention center, sending four Yemeni inmates to the Persian Gulf sultanate of Oman and a fifth to Estonia, the Pentagon said Wednesday.
The latest transfers leave 122 detainees at the military prison in Cuba and underscore President Obama’s determination to press forward with a long-standing effort to close it.
The detainees sent to Oman are Al Khadr Abdallah Muhammad al Yafi, Fadel Hussein Saleh Hentif, Abd al-Rahman Abdullah Au Shabati and Mohammed Ahmed Salam, the Pentagon said in a statement. Akhmed Abdul Qadir was sent to Estonia.
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