The Guantanamo detention facility continues to shrink: A terrorist involved in Mombasa hotel attack and attempted downing of Arkia plane released as part of Guantanamo Bay prison downsizing.
The Pentagon announced the release of three of those held at the detention facility for terror suspects, including a suspect in the 2002 Mombasa terror attack. There are now 27 detainees remaining at the detention facility, compared to about 780 detainees at the peak of activity about two decades ago.
Today, the Pentagon announced that two Malaysians who were held for 21 years have been released back to their country after confessing to committing war crimes for an al-Qaeda-affiliated organization in the 2002 Bali bombing, in which 202 people were murdered. Adam.
The two, Muhammad Nazir bin Lap and Muhammad Farik bin Amin, were arrested along with Hambali, a leader of the Jemaah Islamiyah and the mastermind of the Bali bombing and other attacks in Indonesia, and confessed to helping him evade arrest. They were held at a secret CIA facility in Thailand and tortured before being sent to Guantanamo Bay in 2006.
Yesterday, the Pentagon announced that Muhammad Abdul Malik Bejabu, a Kenyan citizen, had been released from Guantanamo Bay to his country after nearly 18 years, the first release from the facility in more than a year. Bejabu, who was arrested in Kenya in 2007 and extradited to the United States, was suspected of involvement in the November 2002 bombing of an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa and the subsequent attempt to shoot down an Arkia airliner.
All we can do is start counting down the days until he returns to try to hit Israeli targets in Africa.
HINT: In 2009, Israel killed the most wanted fugitive in Somalia, Saleh Nabhan Saleh, who planned the 2002 double bombing in Kenya that killed three Israelis.