Onetime Bin Laden Bodyguard Freed From Gitmo, Transferred To Saudi Arabia

A man said by the U.S. to have been a bodyguard for the late terrorist leader Osama bin Laden has been transferred from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, reports CNN.

Abdul Shalabi, who was captured by the Pakistani military along the Afghan border in December 2001 and then transferred to Gitmo the next month, was repatriated to Saudi Arabia, said the Pentagon on Tuesday.

He was taken after fleeing from the Al-Qaida leader's Tora Bora mountain complex, according to...