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              Saudi Detainee Repatriated From Guantanamo Facility

   by VOA News

   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 being released as part of the Saudi government's
   rehabilitation program for ex-detainees, and he will be monitored for
   years to come.

   With Shalabi's transfer, there are 114 prisoners remaining at the
   Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, facility, including 52 deemed eligible for
   transfer if host countries can meet U.S. security conditions.
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