US embassy cable - 05CAIRO3687

C O N F I D E N T I A L CAIRO 003687 
 
SIPDIS 
 
FOR S/WCI AND NEA/ELA 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 05/15/2015 
TAGS: PTER, PREL, KAWC, EG 
SUBJECT: RELEASE OF EGYPTIAN NATIONALS FROM GUANTANAMO 
 
REF: A. STATE 78994 
     B. STATE 47824 
     C. CAIRO 2494 
     D. STATE 34902 
     E. CAIRO 757 
 
Classified by A/DCM Michael Corbin for reasons 1.4 (b) and 
(d). 
 
1. (C) As instructed ref A, Embassy has gone back through 
liaison channels to reiterate to the GOE the Department's 
points on the cases of Sami Abd El Aziz Salem Allaithy and 
Allah Muhammad Saleem, Egyptian detainees at Guantanamo Bay 
Cuba.  We have asked that the GOE expedite their response. 
 
2. (C) As discussed in ref E, the Egyptian government has 
expressed its willingness to accept its nationals detained in 
Guantanamo and will certainly detain them for 
questioning/debriefing upon their return.  The GOE's 
determination on whether the subjects will then be released 
or referred for prosecution will come only after it weighs 
the results of its own investigation and interviews of the 
detainees. 
 
3. (C) While the GOE is willing to accept all Egyptian 
detainees, our sense is that they do not perceive a core or 
urgent national security interest in doing so, and their 
flexibility on the terms of return, and assurances they are 
prepared to provide, is open to question. 
 
4. (C) The Embassy will continue to press the GOE to provide 
specific and substantive responses to our concerns regarding 
the terms and modalities of returning these detainees. 
 
 
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GRAY