American hospitality

The BBC reports:

A Saudi-born man held at Guantanamo for seven years has told the BBC he has been left in Chad with no papers since his release earlier this month.

Mohamed el-Gharani, whose parents are Chadian, said he had never visited Chad before and cannot speak the language, but described himself as happy.

"Walking around with no guards, with no shackles, it's beautiful," he said.

Mr Gharani was the youngest detainee at Guantanamo. He was detained in Pakistan in 2001, when he was 14 years old.

US authorities had accused him of fighting in Afghanistan and being a member of al-Qaeda as far back as 1998, according to his lawyer.

But a US court ruled in January there was no evidence to prove he was an "enemy combatant" and ordered his release.

Sending el-Gharani home must have been too inconvenient for his torturers.
Sadly, the authorities in Chad did not know what to do with el-Gharani, but he did not mind the new trouble too much:

But despite these difficulties, Mr Gharani said anywhere in the world was better than Guantanamo.

"If you've been in shackles for seven years every day, you will go to Chad, you will go anywhere," he said.