More than two decades after the September 11 attacks, the US Guantanamo prison camp in Cuba still has 34 inmates. This was announced by the Ministry of Defense in Washington on Thursday after Majid Khan, a detainee from Pakistan, was transferred to the Central American country of Belize.
The US government is continuing to work with other countries to responsibly reduce the number of prisoners and eventually close the camp, it said.
The camp is located in Cuba at the US naval base in Guantánamo Bay. At times almost 800 people were imprisoned there.
The camp was set up under Republican President George W. Bush after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States to hold suspected Islamist terrorists without trial. Human rights organizations have long called for the closure.
After his release, Kahn announced that he felt like a new person. Soon he will meet his daughter, who was born after his incarceration, and his wife after 20 years.
He was given a second chance and will make the best of it, Khan said. He regrets his actions and has tried to make amends for them.
According to his own statements, Kahn was born in Saudi Arabia and grew up mainly in Pakistan and the USA. After his return to Pakistan after the September 11 attacks, he was recruited by family members from the Al-Qaeda terrorist militia.
According to the US military, he was involved in an assassination attempt on then-Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and provided money to an al-Qaeda-linked terrorist organization in Indonesia, which used it to finance the 2003 Indonesian hotel attack. in which eleven people died.
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