http://www.english.hadhramaut.info Yemen demands to quickly extradite Guantanamo inmates [The Source: /www.sabanews.net - 18/10/2009] The Yemen embassy official spokesperson in Washington DC Mohammed al-Basha has renewed Yemen's demand from US authorities to extradite Yemeni prisoners in Guantanamo jail, clarifying that
Yemen's attitude was and still clear concerning thereturn of Yemeni prisoners to their country, moatamaer.net reported Saturday.Al-Basha has pointed out that President Ali Abdullah Saleh made an interview on September 11, 2009 with the Qatari Al-Jazeera TV and made it clear that Yemen refuses the idea of transferring Yemeni prisoners to Saudi Arabia as the Yemeni government is fully ready to receive them in special centers to rehabilitate them and trial them if proved their involvement in terror cases.But Americans have opposed and they said that we want them to go to Saudi Arabia near to their families, because they have families in Saudi Arabia, to which Yemen has not disagreed, but Saudi Arabia has refused to receive them, al-Basha added.