Obama frees suspected bodyguard of Osama bin Laden from Guantanamo

The military freed one of Guantánamo's most determined hunger strikers to Saudi Arabia Tuesday, a former "forever prisoner" brought here the day Camp X-Ray opened as a suspected bodyguard of Osama bin Laden. --The release, to a Saudi jet on this base's air strip, left the prison camp population at 114. Now, 52 of the captives are cleared for release to special security agreements with other countries.

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Pakistanis Knew Where Bin Laden Was Hiding All Along, Say US Sources

Two intelligence sources tell NBC News that the year before the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden, a "walk in" asset from Pakistani intelligence told the CIA where the most wanted man in the world was hiding - and these two sources plus a third say that the Pakistani government knew where bin Laden was hiding all along. --The U.S. government has always characterized the heroic raid by Seal Team Six that killed bin Laden as a unilateral U.S. operation, and has maintained that the CIA found him by tracking couriers to his walled complex in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

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