Ex-Gitmo Prisoners Freed Under Obama ‘Vanished’ After Return to Libya

An estimated 150 former Guantánamo Bay prisoners liberated as part of former President Barack Obama’s efforts to shut down the U.S. military detention center “risk being killed—or could end up becoming threats themselves,” the New York Times (NYT) acknowledged this week.

Obama reduced the number of detainees held at the facility, commonly known as Gitmo, from 242 to 41 when he took office.

The previous administration reportedly convinced about three dozen nations to take in 150 “lower-risk” prisoners from dangerous countries like Yemen and Libya.

Senegal, one of the countries who took in some of the prisoners, already deported two of them back to “their chaotic birth country of Libya,” where they “vanished” once they “fell into the hands of a hard-line militia leader who has been accused of prisoner abuse,” the Times reveals.

According to the United Nations, hundreds of African migrants are being bought and auctioned off at “slave markets” in Libya.

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