{{The United States Department of Defense denied claims by a prisoner’s rights group in Mauritania, which announced on Saturday that the U.S. had returned three prisoners to the Mauritania, including two men who had been held at the Guantanamo Bay prison.}}<\/p>\n
No detainees have been transferred from Guantanamo since October last year, said Army Lt. Col. Joseph Todd Breasseale, a U.S. Defense Department spokesman.<\/p>\n
Mauritania officials announced saturday that Younis al-Mauritani, a suspected senior member of al Qaeda previously held in Afghanistan had been transfered to Mauritaria.<\/p>\n
Pakistan said in September 2011 it arrested al-Mauritani, better known in his homeland Mauritania as Youssouf Al Mauritani, during a joint operation with U.S. intelligence services.<\/p>\n
Witnesses at the airport in Mauritania’s capital, Nouakchott, saw a U.S. military plane deliver a prisoner late on Friday.<\/p>\n
Mauritanian authorities confirmed al-Mauritani’s identity, adding that he had been transferred from the U.S. military base in Bagram, Afghanistan.<\/p>\n
“It’s indeed Youssouf Al Mauritani, real name Abderhamane Ould Mohamed Al-Hussein,” a senior security official told media asking not to be named.<\/p>\n
“He was in Bagram and was handed over to the Mauritanian authorities by the Americans. He indeed arrived at the Nouakchott airport Friday night,” he said.<\/p>\n
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