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Article: A Sept. 11 Detainee's Long Path to Release; After Final Glitch, Ivory Coast Native Is Home
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- The Washington Post
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- November 12, 2002
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Before Tony Oulai stepped out of a government car on Saturday at
Orlando International Airport, an immigration agent unlocked his
handcuffs and slipped them off his wrists.
It had been 422 days since Oulai, a pilot from a prominent West
African family, was arrested with flight manuals and a stun gun in
the federal campaign to detain suspected terrorists after the Sept.
11, 2001, attacks. It was 359 days since an immigration judge had
ordered him deported for the routine violation of overstaying his
student visa. But Oulai -- the first material witness in the
terrorism probe to speak publicly about his experiences -- was
finally on his way to his native Ivory Coast.
With a pair of Immigration ...