List of Yemeni detainees at Guantanamo Bay

A delegation of Yemeni officials visited Guantanamo shortly after it opened in January 2002. allegedly tried to set off a suicide bomb on Northwest Airlines Flight 253. By December 27, 2009, responding to rumors that Abdulmutallab had confessed to being trained and equipped in Yemen, various American politicians, including Joe Lieberman, Pete Hoekstra, Peter T. King and Bennie Thompson, called for American president Barack Obama to halt plans to repatriate the Yemenis. Repatriation negotiations An article published in the Yemen Post on November 13, 2012, reported on secret terms in the US-Yemeni repatriation negotiations. ==Repatriated detainees==

Several returned Yemeni detainees were charged and stood trial, following their repatriation. Yemen established a special Criminal Court for Terrorism where their trials took place. On 7 June 2008, the Yemeni site Al Sahwa Net reported that negotiations were advanced for the repatriation of approximately seventy Yemeni detainees. That same day, Yemen Online reported that several Yemeni detainees had recently been allowed to their first phone calls to their families. ==List of Yemeni detainees in Guantanamo==