Guantanamo, the US transfers a prisoner to Morocco. Another step towards closing the camp

NEW YORK – And away one. Abdul Latif Nasir, 56, prisoner number 244, has left Guantanamo. Administration Biden repatriated him to Morocco after 19 years of detention in the super prison inside the naval base that the Americans still keep on the island of Cuba. The infamous prison camp was born in January 2002, four months after the attack on the Towers Twins and three after the start of the war in Afghanistan, to house a very special type of prisoners: “illegal enemy fighters”, according to the definition coined at the time by the men of George W.