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U.S. releases Guantanamo prisoner once tortured at CIA sites

Por: CBS News Politics February 02, 2023

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U.S. military officials said Thursday they released and sent to Belize a onetime al Qaeda courier who had completed his sentence. The transfer of Majid Khan ended an imprisonment that included torture at clandestine CIA sites and 16 years at the Guantanamo Bay detention center.Khan, a Pakistani citizen who grew up outside Baltimore, wound up in the Central American nation under a Biden administration agreement with that government. Khan's... + full article



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