Zee Media Bureau
Washington: A detainee at the US-run Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba is set to be released after a government review panel recommended the same.
The panel concluded that the man from Yemen held at the prison camp for more than a decade can be freed, the BBC reported.
Mahmud Mujahid, 33, was accused of being an al Qaeda terrorist and bodyguard to its leader Osama bin Laden, who was killed in a US raid in Pakistan.
Mujahid was first brought to the detention centre in 2002 but was never formally charged.
The review board was set up by US President Barack Obama in a bid to shut down Guantanamo, where currently 155 detainees are being held.
Mujahid was among the first to appear before the six-member review panel.
A Pentagon spokesman, however, said that the government had not yet taken a decision on when Mujahid would be released.
