PARIS — France says it will take in an Algerian who has been held prisoner by the United States at Guantanamo Bay for the past seven years.
Lakhdar Boumediene was arrested along with five other Algerians in 2001 in Bosnia, suspected in a bomb attack plot against the U.S. embassy in Sarajevo. He arrived in Guantanamo in January 2002.
France’s Foreign Ministry did not say today why Boumediene was not going back to Algeria or when Boumediene would arrive from Guantanamo.
A U.S. federal judge ruled in November that the evidence against Boumediene was not credible.
President Barack Obama has promised to close the prison at Guantanamo and has urged allies to help take prisoners from there. France promised to take one Guantanamo prisoner when Obama attended the NATO summit in April.
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