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April 6, 2002
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AMERICA AT WAR

U.S.-born prisoner transferred from Guantanamo Bay

Associated Press

Saturday, April 6, 2002

Washington -- An American-born prisoner from the Afghan war was transferred Friday from a U.S. Navy base in Cuba to a military jail in Virginia while the Justice Department sought to decide his legal status.

Yasser Esam Hamdi, 22, was among 300 captives held in makeshift cells at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and is the first to be moved off the island. He was flown Friday afternoon to Norfolk Naval Station in Virginia in a C-130 transport plane and placed under 24-hour guard in an isolated cell at the naval brig, or jail.

In a brief statement confirming the transfer, the Pentagon made no ...

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