Repatriation and Release
The Department of Defense reported, on April 26, 2007, that two further captives had been repatriated, one to Morocco, one to Afghanistan. Initially the DoD declined to release the two men's names. But it soon became known that Ahmed Rashidi was the Moroccan man, that he hadn't been released to a third country.
Rashidi was not charged, but he was detained by Moroccan authorities, when he was repatriated.
Rashidi was released on Thursday, May 3, 2007. Reuters reports that Rashidi had traveled to Pakistan, where he was captured in late 2001, to try to raise funds for a heart operation for his young son. Reuters reports that Rashidi described hearing his Pakistani captors negotatiate, with US officials, the size of the bounty they would received for turning him over.
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