The U.S. government staged the failed Christmas Day terror attack so that the United States wouldn’t have to transfer any more Guantanamo Bay detainees to Yemen, according to a well-known former Guantanamo Bay detainee.

Lakhdar Boumediene – who made headlines in 2008 when his Supreme Court case affirmed detainees’ rights to challenge their detentions in federal courts – told reporters on Monday that President Obama has “changed his mind” about closing Guantanamo Bay, and the Christmas Day attack is a result of that shift.

Lakhdar Boumediene

“The government make that [attack] because the government wishes to keep the Yemen detainees in Guantanamo,” Boumediene, on the phone from France, told reporters in Washington. “The second Obama won the [election] he said, ‘I will close Guantanamo next year.’ … But now, one year [later], and he shows he can’t.”

About 90 men from Yemen are currently being held at Guantanamo Bay. A U.S. task force reviewing all Guantanamo Bay cases has cleared many of the Yemenis for transfer.

But two weeks after Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab – believed to have trained with Al Qaeda in Yemen – allegedly tried to blow up an airliner over Detroit, the Obama administration announced it would halt more transfers to Yemen.

“His administration made action in flight from Amsterdam to – I don’t know exactly,” said Boumediene, unable to recall the destination of the Christmas Day flight. “And they say look at this [man] to be a terrorist … and [now officials say they] can’t let the Yemenis go to Yemen.”

Boumediene said Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian now indicted for attempting to use a “weapon of mass destruction,” is “innocent.”

“It’s not his problem if Al Qaeda is in Yemen or in Somalia,” Boumediene said. “He is innocent. … Obama, let these people go to home. These are the answers.”

Asked for any information to support his claims, Boumediene didn’t offer any specifics.

Boumediene was brought to Guantanamo Bay in 2002, but he was never charged with a crime.

In November 2008 a federal judge ordered his release, and six months later he was transferred to France, where he currently lives with his family.

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Probably the best reasoning I've seen for the Underwear Bomber to date.