Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, one of the last detainees at Guantanamo Bay and a close associate of Osama bin Laden, is set to be sent back to an Iraqi prison. However, his wife is urgently calling for him not to be extradited to Baghdad.

"Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, 63, a former al-Qaeda leader, is set to be transferred to a prison in Mosul. His wife urges his release, saying: 'He will survive in Guantanamo Bay, but not in Iraq. He will only be there for a few months. He will remain alive.'"

Earlier, Abd al-Hadi filed a lawsuit in US courts against his transfer to Iraq, highlighting the danger to his life and the lack of adequate medical care for his illness.

He has undergone six spinal surgeries at Guantanamo Bay and is confined to a wheelchair.

Sonia Amiri, Abd al-Hadi’s wife, expressed to the BBC her belief that her husband's life would be in danger in Iraq.

"He should be sent back to Afghanistan because both he and his four children are Afghans," she said, adding, "I knew him as Abdulrahman, and I had no information about Abdulhadi's activities."

Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, whose real name is Nashwan Abdulrazaq Abdulbaqi al-Tamir, was born in 1961 in Mosul. In the 1980s, he served as an officer in the Iraqi army before traveling to Afghanistan, where he became a senior al-Qaeda military commander.

He was arrested in Turkey in 2006 and handed over to US intelligence. In 2022, after 16 years of imprisonment, Abd al-Hadi was convicted of war crimes, including using civilians as human shields, and sentenced to 30 years in prison by a US military judge.

Guantanamo Bay, located in southeastern Cuba and outside US jurisdiction, was established by George W. Bush in 2002 after the 9/11 attacks.

It housed 800 prisoners accused of terrorism, but the number of detainees has dwindled over the years.