WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 (UPI) -- A Guantanamo Bay detainee cleared for release in 2009 was sent home to Mauritania, the Defense Department announced Thursday.
Ahmed Ould Abdel Aziz, 45, was in captivity 13 years at the prison and never charged with a crime. A prison profile, leaked in 2008, indicated he was captured by Pakistani officials at a suspected al-Qaida safe house in Karachi, turned over to U.S. authorities and sent to Guantanamo in 2002.