Italy has received two Tunisian inmates of the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay to be tried on international terrorism charges.
Adel Ben Mabrouk and Muhammad Ben Riadh Nasri, who are facing arrest warrants issued by Italian judicial authorities, were taken into custody upon their arrival in Milan Monday night and sent for interrogation.
Both men, wanted in Italy for links to Islamist militant groups in the country, were captured in Afghanistan and detained at the Guantanamo Bay prison since 2002.
The Tunisians are accused of traveling to Afghanistan to help Islamist militant groups to recruit fighters.
Another Guantanamo inmate, Algerian prisoner Saber Lahmar, has arrived in France, but is expected to be let free as he had been cleared of all terrorism charges.
A fourth prisoner was reported to be bound for Hungary.
Closing the Guantanamo Bay detainee camp within an year was one of the first decisions taken by the Obama administration that assumed power in January, but it has recently acknowledged that the deadline will likely be missed because of political and diplomatic hurdles.
Currently, 213 prisoners remained at the US detention camp in Cuba, which was set up by former president George W. Bush to hold terror suspects from around the world.
So far, few countries have agreed to take the released inmates who fear torture if sent back to their homelands.
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