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Return from Guantanamo

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In 2001 a journalist called Sami al-Hajj was arrested on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. For more than six years he was held in the infamous Guantanamo Bay detention centre until, in 2008, he was suddenly released. In an exclusive interview, he talks to Gavin Esler about what happened to him, and why.