Guled Hassan Duran, a Somali national detained at Guantanamo Bay, has been released.
Guled Hassan Duran, 47, was released on Monday morning, the 20th anniversary of the founding of a detention center at a U.S. naval base in Cuba.
Duran, the first CIA detainee ever to be brought in without charge, was arrested in Djibouti in 2004 and spent about 900 days in undisclosed detention facilities before being transferred to a CIA secret detention in Guantanamo Bay.
He will be the 16th of the 39 Guantanamo detainees still to be released, provided he finds a host country that guarantees his safety and can satisfy his defense secretary, Lloyd J. Austin III.
He cannot return to his homeland under congressional law prohibiting the transfer of Guantanamo detainees to Somalia, Libya, Syria and Yemen.
