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Jailed in 3 East African Nations, U.S. Citizen Returns Home

HeadlineMay 30, 2007

And an American citizen has returned to the U.S. after an ordeal that saw him imprisoned in three East African countries. Twenty-four-year-old Amir Mohamed Meshal was detained in Kenya, transferred to Somalia and then sent to Ethiopia, where he was jailed for three months without charge. Questions have been raised over whether Meshal was held as part of the secret CIA program to jail detainees in foreign prisons. The FBI had accused him of fighting for a radical Islamic movement but is now declining to press charges.

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