Once again, the United States released prisoners from the controversial prison camp. The younger of the two brothers is said to have recruited the older one for extremist circles, who in turn indirectly supported the September 11 attacks. The last allegation is probably not confirmed.
Two Pakistani brothers have been released from the US Guantanamo detention center in Cuba. Abdul and Mohammed Rabbani have been released and returned to their homeland, the Pentagon said in Washington on Thursday. Both brothers were arrested in Pakistan in 2002 and taken to Guantanamo in 2004.
Born in 1967, Abdul Rabbani was one of the oldest inmates of the controversial prison at a US military base in Cuba. US authorities had accused him of working for the suspected mastermind of the September 11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and of running a safehouse for the al-Qaeda terrorist network in Karachi, Pakistan. However, an assessment revealed that he was said to have had no "specific insight into al Qaeda's operational plans".
Born in 1969, Mohammed is accused of having recruited his older brother for extremist circles. He is also said to have organized travel and financial means for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Abd al-Rahim al-Naschiri. Al-Naschiri, who is also imprisoned in Guantanamo, is said to be the mastermind behind the attack on the US guided missile destroyer "USS Cole" in 2000, which killed 17 people.
After the brothers were released, there are now 32 inmates in the prison camp. The US government set up Guantanamo after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington that killed nearly 3,000 people. UN experts had called for the camp to be closed in 2022, saying there had been "continued human rights violations".
