Washington_ Two prisoners from the jail at Guantanamo Navy Base were taken to Senegal, according to information offered by the Defense Department of the United States, Prensa Latina publishes.

Those transferred are the Lybians Salem Abdu Salam Ghereby, 55 years and expert in explosives and Omar Khalif Mohammed Abu Baker Mahjour Umar, of 44, former chief at a terrorist training camp.

The official note of the Pentagon thanked the Senegal government for the humanitarian gesture of receiving the two prisoners and supporting the White House efforts to close the penitentiary, where the penal population was reduced to 89.

Ghereby received the approval of the so called Task Revision Force, established by an executive order in 2009, but which disappeared a year later.

The transfer of Umar was approved by a unanimous agreement of the Periodic Revision Junta functioning since 2011 and is formed by members of the Defense, Internal Security, Justice, State departments, the Junta of General Staff Chiefs and the National Intelligence Director’s Office.

Since the beginning of his mandate on January 2009, Obama promised to close the prison, but the Republican opposition and ultra-right sectors of that country, have obstructed him.

The ruler presented to the Congress, last February, a new initiative for closing it but he found an immediate rejection from the leadership of the Red party.

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