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Prisoner Release Renews Calls for Closure of Guantanamo Bay

October 1, 2012 by Brendan Davis Leave a Comment

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Closure of Guantanamo Bay

Last “Western” Prisoner at Guantanamo Prison Leaves For Home as Many Still Languish Amid Doubts on Closure of Guantanamo Bay

Last Westerner at Guantanamo returns to Canada

AFP

The last Westerner held at Guantanamo Bay, arrested as a teen warrior for Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, returned to his native Canada on Saturday, after years of delay from Stephen Harper’s Conservative government. Omar Khadr spent a decade at the prison at the US naval base in Cuba starting when he was…

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Filed Under: International Democracy Tagged With: Caribbean, Cuba, South America

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