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| ‘Guantanamo Diary’ author held without charge for 14 years cleared for release | ‘Guantanamo Diary’ author held without charge for 14 years cleared for release |
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| The author of the best-selling memoir “Guantánamo Diary,” Mohamedou Ould Slahi has been cleared for release after being held at the military prison for 14 years without charge. | The author of the best-selling memoir “Guantánamo Diary,” Mohamedou Ould Slahi has been cleared for release after being held at the military prison for 14 years without charge. |
| A panel of national security, intelligence, and other officials determined Ould Slahi posed no significant threat to the US and paved the way for his release. | A panel of national security, intelligence, and other officials determined Ould Slahi posed no significant threat to the US and paved the way for his release. |
| Slahi, the author of the best-selling memoir “Guantánamo Diary,” appeared before the Periodic Review Board on June 2, according to the ACLU. | |
| The government of his native Mauritania has said that it would welcome him home. | |
| “We are thrilled that the PRB has cleared our client,” said Nancy Hollander, one of Slahi’s attorneys. | |
| “We will now work toward his quick release and return to the waiting arms of his loving family. This is long overdue.” | |
| A letter of support from Slahi’s former guard at Guantánamo was among the evidence reviewed by the Periodic Review Board which determined he was fit for release. | |
| Mauritania born Slahi fought with al-Qaeda in 1990 when it was part of the Afghan anti-communist resistance supported by the U.S. | |
| The federal judge who reviewed all the evidence in the case noted that the group then was very different from the one that later came into existence. | |
| The ACLU spearheaded the campaign for the author’s release, gathering support from both the US and abroad. |