http://www.english.hadhramaut.info Six Yemeni detainees at Guantanamo sent home [The Source: www.sabanews.net - 20/12/2009]  The U.S. authorities has sent six Yemeni detainees held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay to Yemen.

Spokesman of Yemeni embassy in Washington Mohamed al-Basha told Saba that the U.S. authorities released last Friday six Yemeni detainees at Guantanamo Bay and delivered them last Saturday to the Yemeni side.He explained that delivery of these detainees came as a result of the efforts exerted by Yemen in order to release all Yemeni detainees at Guantanamo Bay and repatriate them to the homeland.For his part, the political official in the embassy Khaled al-Katheri said that the embassy is still intensifying its efforts towards releasing the other Yemeni detainees via meeting the American officials at all levels and continuous communication and coordination with the detainees' lawyers.Nearly 100 Yemenis remain at Guantanamo, the largest national group by far and almost half the 239 detainees at the camp. More than a dozen Yemenis have been cleared for return, and the vast majority have never been charged, but in the more than seven years since Guantanamo began receiving prisoners.The U.S. has sent only 14 Yemenis home and only two in the past two years