A 37-year-old Yemeni man who spent 14 years detained at Guantanamo Bay has been transferred to Montenegro, the Pentagon announced Wednesday.
Abdel Malik Ahmed Abdel Wahab al-Rahabi was brought to the facility in January 2002, accused of being one of Osama bin Laden's bodyguards in Afghanistan. In December 2014, a review board decided al-Rahabi was no longer a major security threat to the United States, and recommended his transfer, Reuters reports. President Obama wants to close Guantanamo down before he leaves office in January, and plans to speed up transfers and bring the rest of the inmates to U.S. maximum security prisons. With the transfer of al-Rahabi, just 79 detainees remain at Guantanamo.
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