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The transferred
detainees were identified by the Pentagon as Ali Ahmad Muhammad
al-Razihi, Khalid Abd-al-Jabbar Muhammad Uthman al-Qadasi, Adil
Said al-Hajj Ubayd al-Busays, Sulayman Awad Bin Uqayl al-Nahdi
and Fahmi Salem Said al-Asani.
The five were described in media reports as low-level Yemeni
detainees.
The Pentagon said 107 detainees remained at the Guantanamo
prison for suspected foreign militants.
The Defense Department is expected soon to unveil a long-awaited
plan outlining how it would close the detention center at
Guantanamo despite fierce resistance to shuttering the facility
in Congress.
President Barack Obama, who campaigned on a pledge to close the
prison, views it as a damaging symbol of detainee abuse and
detention without charge that was inherited from Republican
President George W. Bush.
But the White House said last week that Obama would sign a
sweeping defense policy bill passed by the U.S. Senate despite
provisions making it more difficult to close the Guantanamo
prison.
(Reporting by Peter Cooney; Additional reporting by Phil
Stewart; Editing by Nick Zieminski and Christian Plumb)
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