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| Algerian detainee Lakhdar Boumediene has left the US-run Guantanamo Bay camp for France, officials say. | Algerian detainee Lakhdar Boumediene has left the US-run Guantanamo Bay camp for France, officials say. |
| Mr Boumediene was arrested in Bosnia in 2001 and was held for seven years. He was cleared for release in November. | Mr Boumediene was arrested in Bosnia in 2001 and was held for seven years. He was cleared for release in November. |
| He won a landmark Supreme Court case granting Guantanamo inmates the right to challenge their confinement. | He won a landmark Supreme Court case granting Guantanamo inmates the right to challenge their confinement. |
| The release comes on the same day that US President Barack Obama is expected to announce that he is reviving military trials for some detainees. | The release comes on the same day that US President Barack Obama is expected to announce that he is reviving military trials for some detainees. |
| Earlier this month, France offered to accept Mr Boumediene, 42, who was cleared of any wrongdoing in November. | |
| Mr Boumediene was flown from the US naval base in south-eastern Cuba to waiting relatives in France. | |
| He had been on hunger strike since December 2006 and was force-fed twice a day through a nose-drip. |