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* In late 2001 Saddiq Ahmad Turkistani was freed by US forces from a Taliban prison in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

At a news conference he told reporters and U. S. officials he had been wrongly imprisoned for allegedly plotting to kill Osama bin Laden.

He was then taken to a U. S. military base in Afghanistan, where he was stripped, bound and thrown behind bars.

According to U. S. lawyers who represent him, in January 2002 he was sent to the U. S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Nearly four years later, Turkistani remained there, despite being cleared for release early 2005 after a government review concluded he is " no longer an enemy combatant.

" It is unclear exactly when that determination was made, but Justice Department lawyers gave notice of it in an 11 October court filing.

According to a 26 June 2006 press release from the Saudi Arabian embassy, Turkistani was released from Guantanamo to Saudi custody