On June 23, 2008, the Algerian newspaper El Khabar quoted Farouk Ksentini, the head of Algeria's Advisory Human Rights Commission, about negotiations over the Guantanamo detainees' repatriation.
The article stated that Sandra Hodgkinson, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs, had not been telling "the entire truth".
On July 3, 2008 Carol Rosenberg of the Miami Herald reported that the two repatriated Algerians were Mustafa Hamlily and Abdul Raham Hourari.
[7] The Department of Defense announced on August 30, 2013, that it had repatriated two additional Algerians, who were identified as Nabil Hadjarab and Mutij Sayyab.
On April 3, 2009, at the G20 Summit in Strasbourg, French President Nicolai Sarkozy indicated France would offer asylum to a former Guantanamo detainee.