GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba: American government have advisable liberating a mentally unwell inmate from Guantanamo Bay and repatriating him to Saudi Arabia, consistent with a central authority file printed Friday.

Suspected of being Al Qaeda’s supposed twentieth hijacker for the Sept. 11, 2001 assaults in opposition to the US, Mohammed Al-Qahtani used to be tortured through interrogators at the United States army base in Cuba the place he has been detained for almost 20 years. The federal government dropped its case in opposition to him in 2008 because of the abuse he skilled on the jail.

The detention of Al-Qahtani is “not important to give protection to in opposition to a unbroken vital risk to the safety of the US,” the Periodic Evaluate Board, a panel composed of a number of US nationwide safety businesses, mentioned in a abstract of its choice.

In its ultimate choice dated February 4, the board mentioned Al-Qahtani used to be “eligible for switch” and advisable that he be repatriated to Saudi Arabia the place he may obtain complete psychological well being care and be enrolled in a rehabilitation middle for extremists. The frame famous his “considerably compromised psychological well being situation and to be had circle of relatives fortify.” Security features, together with surveillance and shuttle restrictions, had been additionally advisable.

Al-Qahtani used to be one of the most first prisoners despatched to Guantanamo in January 2002. He had flown to Orlando, Florida on August 4, 2001, however used to be denied access to the rustic and despatched again to Dubai.

He used to be sooner or later captured in Afghanistan in December 2001. His torture on the jail used to be extensively documented and spurred on world human rights teams’ requires the website to be close down. He used to be subjected to extended isolation, sleep deprivation, sexual humiliation and different abuses.

“We tortured Qahtani,” Susan Crawford, a most sensible judicial reputable within the Bush management mentioned in 2009, consistent with a Washington Submit article. In January, the US licensed the discharge of 5 of the remainder 39 males nonetheless at Guantanamo. Ten others, together with the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 assaults, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, referred to as “KSM”, are anticipating trial through an army fee. The detention middle, run through the United States Army, used to be created after the 2001 assaults to accommodate detainees in the United States “battle on terror” and has been known as a website of “extraordinary notoriety” through UN rights professionals. -AFP