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\nAbdellatif Nasser got what he thought was the best possible news in the summer of 2016: one of his attorneys called him at the Guantanamo Bay detention center and told him that the United States had decided that he no longer meant a threat and that he could return to his home in Morocco.
\nThe prisoner allowed himself to be encouraged thinking of the Moroccan food and imagining that he would be home in a flash. \u201cI\u2019ve been here for 14 years,\u201d he said then. \u201cA few more months don\u2019t matter.\u201d
\nBut his optimism was by far wrong. Morocco did not return to Washington the diplomatic agreement that would have allowed him to be free until December 28, eight days after the maximum term to be among the last prisoners who left the base during former President Barack Obama mandate.
\nNow he is one of the five prisoners who were given the green light by the United States but whose freedom is in doubt under President Donald Trump.
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Undated image of Abdellatif Nasser in the Guantanamo Bay detention center, distributed by Attorney Shelby Sullivan-Bennis on December 11. Photo: Shelby Sullivan-Bennis via AP.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nWe waited until the last moment for his release, said Shelby Sullivan-Bennis, the attorney who gave him the news of his release and shared the notes on this conversation. When it didn\u2019t happen, we were devastated, he said, adding that those eight day have become a possible life imprisonment.
\nThe Trump government has not released any prisoners and did not add any name to the list of those who can return to their homes or be relocated in a third country. His predecessor transferred 197 prisoners and former President George W. Bush more than 500.
\nObama tried to close down the detention center, but his initiative was stemmed in Congress by objections about the transfers to penitentiaries on U.S. soil.
\nPardiss Kebriaei, the attorney of a detainee and who belongs to the New York-based group Center for Constitutional Rights, noted that there isn\u2019t any precedent for a government to adopt the position that there will be no more transfers from Guantanamo without taking into account the individual circumstances.
\nThe current government has not announced its policy on the detention center. But before assuming the presidency, Trump said on Twitter that there wouldn\u2019t be more releases in Gitmo, as the base is known. He wrote that these are extremely dangerous persons and shouldn\u2019t be able to return to the battlefield.
\nThe files continue being periodically checked, but the executive is still considering whether or not to transfer the prisoners, according to Armed Forces Commander Ben Sakrisson, Pentagon spokesman for matters related to Guantanamo.<\/p>\n

Guantanamo: \u201can available option\u201d<\/h3>\n

A National Security Council spokesperson, Tara Rigley, underlined that the president said the detention center will continue being an available option in the war against terrorism. She added, refusing to give more details, that it will be the president who will make any decision related to the prisoners, case by case and in the best interest of the United States.
\nThe possibility that ex-prisoners in Guantanamo renew hostile activities for years has been a concern very present in the debate about the releases. The office of the director of National Intelligence said last Friday in his most recent report about the matter that it is confirmed that 17 percent of the 728 prisoners who recovered their freedom returned to that type of activities. Another 12 percent are \u201csuspects,\u201d he added.
\nThe broad majority of the cases was registered in prisoners who were not applied the security revision established by Obama. A working group that included agencies like the Department of Defense and the CIA studied the prisoners and determined who could recover their freedom and who should stay behind bars.
\nThe previous government even created a Periodic Review Board, which considered not only the potential threat but also factors like the behavior of the prisoners in custody and their perspectives of getting a significant job abroad. The rate of recidivism among those released after the measures were put into practice dropped to 4 percent of confirmed cases and 8 percent of suspects.
\nThere are five prisoners among the 41 who continue detained in the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base whose transfer was approved and 10 who were charged by a military commission. This leaves 26 in indefinite prison, whose cases could be revised and could enter the list of those to be released.<\/p>\n

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