WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has repatriated a Kenya man held for 17 years without charge at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, leaving 15 other never-charged men still waiting for release after long being cleared of wrongdoing.
The Defense Department announced the return of Mohammed Abdul Malik Bajabu to Kenya on Tuesday.
The George W. Bush administration set up a military court and prison at the U.S. naval base to handle hundreds of mostly Muslim detainees swept up around the world in the U.S. “war on terror” that followed al-Qaida ‘s Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.
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