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Ex-Guantanamo Inmate Returns to Bahrain

Associated Press
October 15, 2006

MANAMA , Bahrain (AP) - A former detainee in the U.S. prison at GuantanamoBay returned home Sunday to Bahrain after being held for five years, officials said.

Salah Abdulrahim al Blooshi was at his family's home Sunday night, said the head of Bahrain's public prosecutors office, Nawaf al-Ma'wdah, who declined to provide additional information about al Blooshi or his release.

Earlier Saturday, al Blooshi's father, Abdulrahim al Blooshi, thanked the small Persian Gulf country's king, members of parliament and civil rights activists including Nabeel Rajab, the former head of the now dissolved BahrainCenter for Human Rights, for his son's release.

Two other Bahrain nationals remain in custody at GuantanamoBay, a prison in southeastern Cuba, where the U.S. holds about 450 men on suspicion of links to al-Qaida or the Taliban.

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