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Kenyan man held at Guantanamo Bay back home

Mohamed Abdul Malik Bajabu who was in detention at the United States' Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. [File, Standard]

A Kenyan who has been in detention at the United States' Guantanamo Bay in Cuba for nearly two decades after he was linked to terrorism arrived in Mombasa on Tuesday.

Mohamed Abdul Malik Bajabu, the only Kenyan ever to be detained in US' famous detention camp for terror suspects, spent 17 years in the camp. He was arrested in 2007 at Likoni in Mombasa and handed over to FBI detectives who moved him to Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan and later to Cuba.

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