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US releases oldest Gitmo detainee Saif Ullah Paracha
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 29 - 10 - 2022

Guantanamo Bay's oldest prisoner has been released to his home country, Pakistan, after almost two decades.
Saif Ullah Paracha, 75, was arrested two years after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the US and accused of being an Al-Qaida sympathizer.
Paracha was suspected of financing the group, but maintained his innocence and was never charged.
The US military prison in Cuba once housed hundreds of suspected militants captured following the attacks.
"Saif Ullah Paracha, a Pakistani national, who was detained in Guantanamo Bay, has been released and reached Pakistan on Saturday, Oct. 29, 2022," Pakistan's Foreign Ministry said.
"We are glad that a Pakistani citizen detained abroad is finally reunited with his family," the statement added
Paracha was captured in July 2003 in Thailand following a sting operation by the American FBI [Federal Bureau of Investigations].
Paracha, who studied in the US, was accused by US authorities of having contact with some of the group's most senior figures, including its leader Osama Bin Laden and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
After 14 months at a US military prison in Bagram, Afghanistan, he was transferred to Guantanamo.
The secretive US military prison has been used to hold what America describes as captured unlawful combatants during its "war on terror".
US President Joe Biden is under pressure to clear out uncharged prisoners and move ahead with the trials of those accused of having direct ties to Al-Qaida.
His administration approved Paracha's release last year, along with that of another Pakistani national, 55-year-old Abdul Rabbani, and Yemen native Uthman Abdul Al-Rahim Uthman, 41.
The statement from the Pakistani Foreign Ministry did not mention Rabbani.
There are still 35 people being held at Guantanamo — including Khalid Mohammed, named as "the principal architect of the 9/11 attacks" in the 9/11 Commission Report. — BBC


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