US Releases Oldest Detainee From Guantánamo Bay After 17 Years With No Charges
The United States announced it has released its oldest detainee at Guantánamo Bay detention camp and repatriated him to Pakistan.
Pakistani national Saifullah Paracha, 75, was first detained at the facility in 2003. He was said to have provided substantive financial support to the al-Qaeda and Taliban terrorist groups in the immediate aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, and was also alleged to have been in contact with prominent terrorists, including Osama bin Laden and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. His son was found guilty of laundering $200,000 into American from Pakistan for al-Qaeda.
He has never been charged before a military commission or any other tribunal with a crime against the United States. He was held as a law of war detainee….