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Shaker Aamer, last UK resident held at Guantanamo Bay prison, returns home
Source: CNN
Shaker Aamer, last UK resident held at Guantanamo Bay prison, returns home
By Don Melvin, CNN
Updated 1513 GMT (2313 HKT) October 30, 2015
(CNN) - For Shaker Aamer, the last British resident held in the American prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, it has been a long haul.
Bounty hunters captured Aamer in Afghanistan in 2001 and turned him over to the United States. He was cleared for release from Guantanamo in 2007. And on Friday, eight years later, he finally returned home to the UK, arriving around 1 p.m. local time (9 a.m. ET).
It has been a long haul for his family as well.
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The British Foreign Office confirmed that Aamer was back in the UK.
"It has been a longstanding government policy to secure Mr. Aamer's return to the UK," a Foreign Office representative said. "We welcome his release and continue to support President Obama's commitment to closing the detention facility at Guantanamo."
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By Don Melvin, CNN
Updated 1513 GMT (2313 HKT) October 30, 2015
(CNN) - For Shaker Aamer, the last British resident held in the American prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, it has been a long haul.
Bounty hunters captured Aamer in Afghanistan in 2001 and turned him over to the United States. He was cleared for release from Guantanamo in 2007. And on Friday, eight years later, he finally returned home to the UK, arriving around 1 p.m. local time (9 a.m. ET).
It has been a long haul for his family as well.
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The British Foreign Office confirmed that Aamer was back in the UK.
"It has been a longstanding government policy to secure Mr. Aamer's return to the UK," a Foreign Office representative said. "We welcome his release and continue to support President Obama's commitment to closing the detention facility at Guantanamo."
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Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2015/10/30/europe/last-briton-in-guantanamo-released/
