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Youngest Gitmo inmate returned

THE youngest prisoner and last Westerner held at Guantanamo Bay detention centre has been returned to his native country.

Canadian-born Omar Khadr had been held at the US base in Cuba since 2002 after being detained in Afghanistan aged 15.

A military plane yesterday flew Khadr to Canada, where he will serve the rest of his eight-year jail sentence.

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