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MYSTERIOUS: Us military releases long held guantanamo detainee to tunisia | Mind Blowing Facts

In this 2002 photo, detainees from Afghanistan sit in their cells at Camp X-Ray at the US military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba [File: Lynne Sladky/AP]

The Pentagon has released a Tunisian detainee held in Guantanamo Bay since the first day the notorious prison camp opened in 2002 without ever being charged.

Ridah bin Saleh al-Yazidi was repatriated from the United States military prison in Cuba to Tunisia on Monday, the US Department of Defense said in a statement.

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