Former Guantánamo Bay detainee Jihad Ahmad Diyab’s fourth attempt to escape Uruguay and return to his native Middle East has failed after Morocco deported him this week for using a falsified passport.
Jihad Ahmad Diyab — former detainee at the U.S. Guantánamo Bay detention center and, until recently, Latin American fugitive — may be planning a “hunger strike,” demanding the small nation of Uruguay pay to reunite him with his family in the Middle East.
Jihad Ahmad Diyab, a former Guantánamo Bay detainee who went missing earlier this summer after leaving Uruguay, where he was given refugee status, is reportedly being kept incommunicado in a Venezuelan secret prison. His attorney fears he has taken up a hunger strike.
Jihad Ahmad Diyab, a former Guantánamo Bay detainee who was released to Uruguay as part of a deal between the White House and the socialist government of former President José Mujica, has surfaced in Venezuela after his disappearance a month ago. He is demanding to be flown to Turkey to reunite with his Syrian family.
The Pentagon’s special envoy for closing the Guantánamo Bay prison facility, Paul Lewis, insisted on Thursday to Congress that the process of emptying the prison is being done in a “safe and responsible” manner, despite multiple former detainees confirmed to have once again joined jihadist groups.
As Latin America cooperates on a frantic search to find former Guantánamo Bay detainee Jihad Ahmad Diyab, a report suggests the terrorist left Uruguay for Venezuela last month, after authorities had issued a statement claiming he had illegally entered Brazil.