It is President Obama's largest transfer of Guantanamo Bay prisoners yet, and there's more to come.

The Pentagon announced Monday that 15 Gitmo detainees were shipped to the United Arab Emirates. Among the enemy combatants released to an Islamic country are 12 Yemenis and three Afghans. A mere 61 prisoners are left at the detention center, which Obama has vowed to close all together. The NY Post reports:

The latest batch of released prisoners had mostly been held without charge for some 14 years at Guantanamo. They were cleared for release by the Periodic Review Board, comprised of representatives from six U.S. government agencies.

The UAE successfully resettled five detainees transferred there last year, according to the Pentagon.

Lee Wolosky, the State Department’s special envoy for Guantanamo’s closure, said the U.S. was grateful to the United Arab Emirates for accepting the latest group of 15 men and helping pave the way for the detention center’s closure.

“The continued operation of the detention facility weakens our national security by draining resources, damaging our relationships with key allies and partners, and emboldening violent extremists,” Wolosky said.

Naureen Shah, Amnesty International USA’s director of national security and human rights, said the transfers announced Monday are a “powerful sign that President Obama is serious about closing Guantanamo before he leaves office.”

When Amnesty International weighs in positively, you know it's a bad thing. 

As in every case in which Obama has released enemy combatants, these 15 will likely rejoin jihad in some form or other. For instance, the Post reports that a Pentagon profile from just last year on one of the Yemenis released -- Zahir Umar Hamis bin Hamdun -- says he expressed a dislike for the U.S. The Pentagon then dismissed Hamdun's anti-American sentiments as relating to his detention at Gitmo more than his "commitment to global jihad."

Really? The man served as a weapons and explosives trainer facilitating terror attacks against Americans and American interests. It seems he had his "dislike" for the U.S. long before his Gitmo detention. We're sure the same can be said for the other 14, who are now resettled in an Islamic country and free to resume their war on the West.