Seven years after his arrest in Pakistan, where he was attending a mosque, 21-year-old Mohammed El Gharani, a citizen of Chad, has been released fro Guantanamo Bay and sent home to Chad, his lawyers say. The US government has not confirmed the information. El Gharani was 14 when he was arrested on suspicion of “of staying in an al Qaeda-affiliated guest house in Afghanistan, of fighting in the battle of Tora Bora, serving as a courier for senior al Qaeda operatives, and being a member of a London-based al Qaeda cell,” reports Reuters, and he was turned over to US officials in Afghanistan. The charges were never proven and a judge ordered in January 2009 that he should be freed.

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