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Pentagon Unable to Confirm Ex-Gitmo Prisoner Missing in South America

© AP Photo / Ben FoxIn this photo reviewed by the U.S. military, a prisoner stands with his back turned inside Camp 6, a communal unit of the Guantanamo Bay detention center for prisoners who are considered "highly compliant" with the rules, at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba, Saturday, June 7, 2014
In this photo reviewed by the U.S. military, a prisoner stands with his back turned inside Camp 6, a communal unit of the Guantanamo Bay detention center for prisoners who are considered highly compliant with the rules, at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba, Saturday, June 7, 2014 - Sputnik International
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The US Department of Defense is not able to confirm reports that a former Guantanamo Bay detainee, who was transferred to Uruguay, has gone missing in neighboring Brazil, department spokesman Peter Cook said at a press conference on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Last week, US media reported that Ahmed Mustafa Dhiab, a Syrian national released from the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to Uruguay in 2014, disappeared across the border to Brazil.

"I can’t confirm that," Cook said in response to the reports of the missing detainee.

The Defense Department has seen the reports of the missing prisoner and is "tracking" the development, Cook said, adding that Dhiab’s questionable whereabouts are "something, obviously, we take very seriously."

In 2014, Uruguay took five detainees from Guantanamo Bay, becoming the first South American country to accept such individuals transferred as part of President Barack Obama’s effort to close the detention facility.

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