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Gitmo Detainee Boumediene Released to France

By Jeralyn, Section Terror Detainees
Posted on Fri May 15, 2009 at 02:42:33 PM EST
Tags: Guantanamo (all tags)
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Lakhdar Boumediene, imprisoned since 2001 when he was captured in Bosnia, has been released from Guantanamo and sent to France. France agreed to take the 43 year old Algerian because he has relatives there.

Boumediene has been on a hunger strike and force-fed since 2006. He's the detainee whose name appears on the landmark Supreme Court decision that held detainees can seek review of their detention through habeas petitions.

Boumediene is the second prisoner transferred to a third-party country by the Obama administration. In February, Binyam Mohamed, a native of Ethiopia who had lived in Britain, was returned to the United Kingdom.

2 down, 238 to go.

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    If the 238 are such nice guys... (1.00 / 1) (#1)
    by diogenes on Fri May 15, 2009 at 06:47:18 PM EST
    If the 238 are such nice guys then Obama should let them into the US rather than delay while looks to send them elsewhere.  If there is resistance to these guys living in the US then maybe they aren't such nice guys after all.

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