The Washington Post | Freeing Mr. Hamdi

t r u t h o u t - The Washington Post | Freeing Mr. Hamdi:

"Nearly three years after his capture, the government has agreed to release Yaser Esam Hamdi, the American-born Saudi it has been holding as an 'enemy combatant' at a naval brig in South Carolina. In and of itself, the deal is unobjectionable. Mr. Hamdi, even accepting the worst of the government's allegations against him, was nothing more than a Taliban foot soldier, neither a major national security threat nor a likely intelligence asset of ongoing consequence. The deal will allow Mr. Hamdi to return to Saudi Arabia, where he will renounce any claim to American citizenship and accept travel restrictions. His release is part of an important process of belatedly distinguishing detainees who may need to be held from those who can be repatriated. "

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