Former Guantanamo Bay Detainee Marries Uruguayan
Looks like there might be a happy ending for ex-Guantanamo Bay detainee Adel bin Muhammad El Ouerghi.
The 50-year-old El Ouerghi has just wed a 24-year-old Uruguayan convert to Islam named Roma Blanco.
As reported by The Associated Press, Friday’s matrimony was the first of two weddings being set by former Guantanamo Bay detainees who have been resettled in Uruguay.
Speaking about her new husband, the happy bride said, "Adel is humble, respectful, nice and very gentlemanly," adding that he “is everything that a woman can expect from a man," and that she likes her husband's sincerity as well as the way he treats her 5-year-old son. Blanco, who met her beloved El Ouerghi a month ago at a mosque, is a recent convert to Islam. Converting to the Abrahamic religion a mere four months ago, she plans on taking the name Samira.
The wedding was a simple ceremony, taking place in the two-bedroom apartment where the couple plans to live. Next week the couple will take out a wedding license which is required in Uruguay in order for a marriage to be recognized.
El Ouerghi is part of a group of six men (four Syrians, a Palestinian, and and Ouerghi) that were never charged with crimes and had been approved for transfer from the prison camp to Uraguay.
Speaking with Al Jazerra in March, El Ouerghi said he had not been allowed to return to his home in Tunisia and made it clear that he saw remaining in Uraguay as his only option, saying, “I want to stay in Uruguay to rebuild my life. If I didn’t, what would I do?”
About her husband’s past hardships at Guantanamo May, Blanco said, "I know that he was tortured, but I haven't wanted to dig in his wounds.
"I've told him that when he wants to, he can tell me about, and he has said he would."
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