Ahmed Belbacha, 44, was cleared for transfer by a task force created to review inmates' cases by a 2009 executive order,
US Transfers Guantanamo Detainee To Algeria
March 13, 2014

Via AFP:

The Pentagon said it had transferred an inmate from the Guantanamo prison back home to Algeria, after holding him at the facility for 12 years without a trial.

The move brought the number of detainees at the military prison down to 154, as President Barack Obama tries to make good on a promise to close the controversial detention camp at a US naval base in southeast Cuba.

Ahmed Belbacha, 44, was cleared for transfer by a task force created to review inmates' cases by a 2009 executive order, the Pentagon said in a statement.

The task force "conducted a comprehensive review of this cas...

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