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After More than Six Years, Al Jazeera Cameraman Sami al-Hajj Released from Guantanamo Bay

After More than Six Years, Al Jazeera Cameraman Sami al-Hajj Released from Guantanamo Bay

Arrested in Pakistan in December 2001, Sami al-Hajj spent nearly six-and-a-half years at Guantanamo without charge or trial. He had been on a more than a year-long hunger strike to protest his imprisonment. We hear al-Hajj’s first public remarks from his hospital bed in Sudan and speak to his brother, Asim al-Hajj. [includes rush transcript]

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