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Famous Gitmo Detainee Released to France

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(Newser) – Lakhdar Boumediene, the Guantanamo detainee who took on the Bush administration in a landmark Supreme Court case, was released today and flown to France to be reunited with relatives, the Washington Post reports. He was named the plaintiff in Boumediene v. Bush, the Supreme Court case that extended the right to habeas corpus to detainees. Though he’s not a French citizen, France agreed to accept the 43-year-old because he has family there.

Boumediene has been on a hunger strike since 2006 to protest his incarceration, with authorities force-feeding him to keep him alive. He was arrested along with five compatriots in Bosnia in 2001, but in November a federal judge said the evidence against them wasn’t credible, and ordered all but one released.

Guards stand on either side of a line-up of Guantanamo detainees, in white, to perform a search for unauthorized items, at Guantanamo's Camp 4 detention facility, May 12, 2009.
Guards stand on either side of a line-up of Guantanamo detainees, in white, to perform a search for unauthorized items, at Guantanamo's Camp 4 detention facility, May 12, 2009.   (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
A Guantanamo detainee reads a book in a common area at Guantanamo's Camp 6 maximum-security detention facility, May 12, 2009.
A Guantanamo detainee reads a book in a common area at Guantanamo's Camp 6 maximum-security detention facility, May 12, 2009.   (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
In this image reviewed by the U.S. Military, a Guantanamo detainee is escorted by guards at Camp 4 detention facility, Nov. 18, 2008.
In this image reviewed by the U.S. Military, a Guantanamo detainee is escorted by guards at Camp 4 detention facility, Nov. 18, 2008.   (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
The sun rises over Guantanamo detention facility, at the U.S. Naval Base, in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Nov. 19, 2008.
The sun rises over Guantanamo detention facility, at the U.S. Naval Base, in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Nov. 19, 2008.   (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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kokuaguy
May 15, 09 12:41 PM CDT
A military tribunal with basic due process could have accomplished this 6 or 7 years ago and the U.S. would not now be viewed as a rogue nation by much of the world. Reply
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May 15, 09 12:44 PM CDT
Rogue nation? More like war criminals.
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