RIYADH - Saudi authorities said on Friday that 15 Saudi former inmates of the US detention camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba returned home overnight and that they hoped others would follow soon. “Fifteen Saudi citizens who were detained at Guantanamo Bay have been repatriated, landing in the country early Friday,” Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz said, quoted by the state SPA news agency.Nayef expressed “appreciation” for the cooperation of US authorities, adding that Riyadh would carry on efforts to obtain the repatriation of Saudis still held in Guantanamo “in the near future, God willing.” Officials at Riyadh’s King Khaled airport told AFP overnight that the group of former inmates had returned from Guantanamo and were greeted at the airport by family members.
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