Overview

• The US military repatriated a prisoner to Algeria from Guantánamo Bay without charge after more than two decades.
• Said bin Brahim bin Umran Bakush was among about 20 suspected low-level fighters who were taken to Guantánamo Bay after being swept up by Pakistani security services in a 2002 raid in Faisalabad on dwellings believed to be Al Qaeda safe houses.
• Bakush's release leaves only one prisoner captured in the raid still at the Pentagon prison in Cuba.
• The Biden administration has made six transfers in six months to reduce the detainee population at the Navy base.
• of the 30 men held there are eligible for transfers, but require more complex diplomatic negotiations than the recent repatriations.