Nine sent out of Guantanamo included Al-Jazeera cameraman

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WASHINGTON (AFP) — Nine detainees at the US war-on-terror prison camp in Guantanamo, Cuba, were transferred out, including an Al-Jazeera cameraman, a US spokesman said Friday.

Five detainees were sent to Afghanistan, three to Sudan and one to Morocco, the Defense Department said.

Among those sent home was a Sudanese cameraman with the Arab satellite news channel Al-Jazeera. He accused US authorities of insulting Islamic symbols on his return home after six years of detention at Guantanamo Bay.

There were "many violations -- (we were) deprived from praying and there were... deliberate insults to God's holy book," the Koran, at the US military prison in Guantanamo, Sami al-Haj said from his hospital bed in Khartoum.

Haj, whose overnight homecoming was...