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Guantanamo Bay inmate Ridah Bin Saleh al-Yazidi has been repatriated to Tunisia, the US Department of Defense says.
He was deemed eligible to be transferred from the detention center after a “rigorous interagency review process,” according to a news release.
The Pentagon did not say whether Yazidi had accepted any blame.
Since 2002, the Guantanamo Bay detention center has been used to hold what the United States describes as illegal fighters captured during the United States’ “war on terrorism.”
The camp is part of a complex of US naval bases in southeastern Cuba.
The pentagon statement He said 26 detainees remained at Guantanamo Bay, of whom 14 were eligible for transfer.
