WASHINGTON: Ten “high-threat illegal aliens” have arrived at Guantanamo and are being held at the notorious American base in Cuba, the Pentagon said Wednesday, without providing details on their alleged offenses.
President Donald Trump last week ordered the preparation of a 30,000-person “migrant facility” at the base, which is primarily known as a detention center for suspects accused of terrorism-related offenses, but which also has a history of being used to hold migrants.
“These 10 high-threat individuals are currently being housed in vacant detention facilities,” the Pentagon said in a statement.
“US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is taking this measure to ensure the safe and secure detention of these individuals until they can be transported to their country of origin or other appropriate destination,” it said.
Officials said Tuesday that flights to the base had started, as part of what the Trump administration is casting as a major effort to combat illegal migration that has also included immigration raids, arrests and deportations on military aircraft.
The president has made the issue a priority on the international stage as well, threatening Colombia with sanctions and massive tariffs for turning back two planeloads of deportees.
The Guantanamo prison was opened in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks and has been used to indefinitely hold detainees seized during the wars and other operations that followed.
Conditions there have prompted outcry from rights groups, and UN experts have condemned it as a site of “unparalleled notoriety.”
Pentagon says 10 ‘high-threat’ migrants being held at Guantanamo
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Pentagon says 10 ‘high-threat’ migrants being held at Guantanamo
- Pentagon statement: ‘US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is taking this measure to ensure the safe and secure detention of these individuals’
- Guantanamo prison was opened in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and has been used to indefinitely hold detainees
Suicide attacker behind deadly Islamabad mosque blast: security source
- The blast killed 15 people and wounded at least 80, local authorities say
- Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif condemned the blast
ISLAMABAD: A suicide attacker was responsible for a deadly blast at a Shiite mosque in Islamabad on Friday, a security source said.
“The attacker was stopped at the gate and detonated himself,” the source told AFP on condition of anonymity.
The blast killed 15 people and wounded at least 80, local authorities said.
A senior police official said, on condition of anonymity, that the “explosion occurred after Friday prayers in a Shiite mosque.”
A statement from local authorities in Islamabad said 15 people were killed in the attack at the mosque in the Tarlai area of the city, adding that the “number of patients brought to various hospitals has exceeded 80.”
An AFP photographer outside the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) hospital saw dozens of wounded people arriving.
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif condemned the blast.
