All of the “big three” news networks ignored new details Wednesday evening of a Guantanamo Bay detainee who went missing in Uruguay. “The detainee was transferred to Uruguay by the Obama administration in 2014,” stated anchor Bret Baier on Special Report, “But has since vanished and officials say he could be in Brazil.” The development provides Congressional Republicans with even more ammo to stop detainee transfers from Gitmo.
The detainee’s name is Jihad Ahmed Mujstafa Diyab and he is not the first transferred detainee to go missing. “An estimated 30 percent of enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay who have been transferred to other countries are suspected of going back to the fight” reported Fox News’ Doug McKelway.
Diyab’s ability to simply vanish into thin air exposes that the Obama administration is transferring prisoners to countries that don’t share our interests. As McKelway explains:
Uruguay’s former President Jose Mujica long considered the Gitmo prison quote, “a disgrace,” so he left Diyab on a very long leash. Even allowing him to travel abroad. Asked by Fox News last week about Diyab the Pentagon was not able to confirm his whereabouts.
Republican Senator Tim Scott argued that Obama’s constant push to close Gitmo is mostly to satisfy himself, “It appears to me to be a campaign promise that he made several years ago that he's trying to fulfill.”
The current concern is that Diyab has fled to either Syria or possibly Brazil since the Olympics are set to be held there in a few short weeks.