Released Detainee en Route to Britain

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Released Detainee en Route to Britain
February 23, 2009
Associated Press

LONDON - A former British resident who claims he was brutally tortured at a covert CIA site in Morocco has been freed from Guantanamo after nearly seven years in U.S. captivity - an ordeal that could come back to haunt the U.S. and British governments.

Binyam Mohamed was en route to Britain on Monday.

"I am so glad and so happy, more than words can express," said Mohamed's sister, Zuhra Mohamed.

The 30-year-old Ethiopian refugee has few remaining links to Britain. His brother and sister live in the United States. His parents are said to be back in Ethiopia. And his British residency that he obtained when he was teenager has since expired.

"I hope you will understand that after everything I've been through, I am neither physically nor mentally capable of facing the media on the moment on my arrival back to Britain," Mohamed said in a statement released through his attorneys. "I hope to be able to do better in days to come when I'm on the road to recovery."


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