“He’s a form, humorous, fun-loving man,” stated his long-serving lawyer George Clarke, who was livid on the reversal. “We joke with one another. He’s very desirous about discovering a girlfriend or a spouse.”
The circumstances of the opposite two cleared prisoners are extra difficult. One man is Tunisian, Ridah bin Saleh al Yazidi, 55, who was introduced there in January 2002 and was permitted for launch a decade in the past however has proven little interest in leaving. The opposite is a stateless Rohingyan, Muieen Abd al Sattar, 45.
Earlier than a typical launch, a shackled prisoner sits throughout a desk from representatives of a would-be host nation or the Worldwide Committee of the Crimson Cross to precise a willingness to comply with the foundations. Through the years when the State Division was arranging transfers, neither man would depart his cell for such conferences.
“Two of them had a chance to get on an airplane and selected to not go,” Rear Adm. John C. Ring, a former jail commander, remarked in 2018. “So how unhealthy may or not it’s right here?”
Different protection and diplomatic officers throughout the years have described these two prisoners as too profoundly broken — both mentally sick or accustomed to their institutionalization — to attempt to search a approach out. That would depart pressured repatriation of Mr. Yazidi as one possibility.
For now, Mr. Barhoumi’s brother and mom are nonetheless planning for his return. They anticipate that, like the opposite 17 Algerians who had been repatriated via the years, eight by the Bush administration and 9 by the Obama administration, the Algerian authorities will detain him for questioning earlier than he’s launched to his household.
Then, “he’ll dwell his life like a standard citizen so he could make up on the life he’s missed,” stated his brother Samir. Throughout a latest name from Guantánamo, Mr. Barhoumi requested his mom whether or not there was nonetheless a prepared bride ready for him. So she checked, and the lady replied: “God prepared, when he will get again we’ll make it occur.”