Al-Qaida courier turned informant Majid Khan, 42, to be permanently resettled after being held in US custody for nearly 20 years
The US has released Majid Khan, an al-Qaida courier turned informant who was tortured in secret CIA prisons and held in custody for nearly 20 years, marking the first time a “high-value detainee” has been freed fromKhan, a 42-year-old Pakistani born in Saudi Arabia, completed his jail term last March and landed in Belize on Thursday, where he is to be permanently resettled.
He added that he expected to be reunited with his wife after 20 years apart, and to meet his daughter for the first time.. One of his lawyers, Wells Dixon, said: “My understanding is that Majid Khan is a completely free individual.” Khan pleaded guilty in 2012 and agreed to cooperate in the prosecutions of other suspects. He confessed to being an al-Qaida courier and delivering $50,000 from Pakistan to one of the terror organisation’s affiliates in Indonesia, where the money was used to fund the bombing of a hotel in Jakarta in 2003.
“I have been given a second chance in life and I intend to make the most of it,” Khan said in his statement on Thursday.
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