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PARIS — A Guantanamo Bay prisoner who was at the center of a Supreme Court battle over inmates’ rights arrived Friday in France, which agreed to take in the Algerian as a gesture to the Obama administration.

After seven years in the U.S. camp, 43-year-old Lakhdar Boumediene was released Friday and flown to France.

Boumediene, suspected in a bomb plot against the U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo, was arrested along with five other Algerians in 2001 in Bosnia. The Associated Press

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