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Article: US agrees to send "enemy combatant" to Saudi Arabia
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- September 22, 2004
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US agrees to send "enemy combatant" to Saudi Arabia
WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- The United States has reached
agreement with a US citizen who has held as an "enemy combatant" for
more than two years without charges to send him to Saudi Arabia,
officials said Wednesday.
Yaser Esam Hamdi, who was born in the United States but raised in
Saudi Arabia, would be sent to Saudi Arabia and stripped of his US
citizenship, under the agreement reports said was signed last week.
The agreement also imposed restrictions on Hamdi from traveling to
certain countries.
Hamdi has been held as an "enemy combatant" since he was captured
in Afghanistan in late 2001 while allegedly fighting for the ...