The release of Abdul Latif Nasir

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🗓️ 20 July 2021

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The Biden administration has resumed repatriation of Guantánamo Bay detainees — a practice largely halted under former president Donald Trump. Plus, why some states are considering reinstating mask mandates.

The Biden administration on Monday repatriated a detainee from Guantánamo Bay to Morocco, the first transfer of an inmate from the high-security prison since President Donald Trump mostly halted resettlements when he took office in 2017. We hear from The Post’s Missy Ryan about what the release of Abdul Latif Nasir signals about the Biden administration’s plans to close the Guantánamo Bay detention facility. Plus, we hear from Radiolab’s Latif Nasser, who chronicled Nasir’s case on the podcast series “The Other Latif,” to understand his life beyond being a detainee.

Two months after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said vaccinated individuals did not need to wear masks in most settings, a growing number of public health officials are warning that it might be time to put them back on. Health reporter Dan Diamond on the return of mask mandates – and the return of the political debate around them.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Cleveland, so what the Washington Post
0:13.8	is.
0:14.8	It's Ellen Nathachima with Washington.
0:16.0	This is Post Reports.
0:17.6	I'm Martin Powers.
0:21.5	It's Tuesday, July 20.
0:26.2	Today, President Biden's renewed attempts to close Guantanamo Bay and the return of
0:32.3	mask mandates.
0:39.0	So the Biden administration has transferred a prisoner from Guantanamo Bay back to his
0:45.1	home country of Morocco, and it marks the first transfer of a prisoner from the high security
0:51.4	facility under the Obama administration.
0:57.9	Missy Ryan covers national security for the post.
1:01.6	Senior officials attended the remaining detainees are eligible for repatriation.
1:06.2	Any sense yet of the targeted timelines for transferring them?
1:10.6	And is there a broader goal within this administration of closing Guantanamo Bay?
1:16.3	Has that timeline been set?
1:17.9	Yes, our goal is to close Guantanamo Bay.
1:22.0	And really, it's the second since 2017 because President Trump halted what had been a pretty
1:28.8	robust resettlement program from Guantanamo Bay, and it marks what we think potentially is
1:35.4	the resumption of an effort to close the prison, which has become a symbol of some of the
1:41.8	problems that the United States encountered in its response to the 9-11 attacks.
1:47.8	The prisoner transferred out of Guantanamo is obdelative-nosser.
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