Release Negotiations
On June 23, 2008 the Algerian newspaper El Khabar quoted Farouk Ksentini the head of Algeria's Advisory Human Rights Commission about negotiations over the Guantanamo detainees' repatriation. According to Al Khabar Ksentini reported that the US had insisted on unacceptable conditions. The article stated that Sandra Hodgkinson, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence for Detainee Affairs, had not been telling "the entire truth".
The Department of Defense announced on July 2, 2008 that it had repatriated two Algerians. The Department withheld the Algerians' identities. The Department did not explain why it withheld the identities of the released men.
On July 3, 2008 Carol Rosenberg of the Miami Herald reported that the two repatriated Algerians were Mustafa Hamlily and Abdul Raham Hourari.
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