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CAIRO, Egypt -- Al-Jazeera television reports that cameraman Sami al-Haj has been released from Guantanamo after more than six years in U.S. custody and is en route to his home country Sudan.
Wadah Khanfar, managing director of Al-Jazeera Arabic, confirmed al-Haj was on a plane heading to the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, after being released from the U.S. detention center in Cuba earlier on Thursday.
"We are in a state of high expectation and we are overwhelmed with joy," he said.
Khanfar added that al-Haj's wife and child were flying from Doha, Qatar to Khartoum immediately to see him.
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