Saudi Detainee Repatriated From Guantanamo Facility

The Obama administration announced Tuesday that it had transferred a Saudi Arabian national from the prison facility at Guantanamo Bay back to his native Saudi Arabia. Held since January 2002, Abdul Rahman Shalabi was cleared for release in June by a review board after previously being deemed too dangerous to be freed. He was a longtime hunger striker and was never charged with a crime. A Pentagon document had identified Shalabi as one of Osama bin Laden's bodyguards. Shalabi is...

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