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US releases Saudi Guantanamo detainee after 21 years
The United States announced the release Wednesday from the Guantanamo military prison of a Saudi engineer seized over two decades ago as a suspect in the September 11, 2001 Al-Qaeda attacks but never charged.Ghassan Al Sharbi, 48, was detained in Faisalabad, Pakistan with an Al-Qaeda associate in March 2002. He was targeted because he had studied at an aeronautical university in Arizona and had attended flight school with two of the Al-Qaeda highjackers in the 9/11 plot.The US military had weighed charges against Sharbi and several others but dropped them in 2008.Yet it continued to hold him as an enemy combatant in the military prison in the US Navy's base at Guantanamo

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