A Saudi Arabian man held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, for more than two decades without being put on trial has been released by the U. In March 2002 he was captured during a raid of an al-Qaeda guest house in Pakistan and in June 2002 he was sent to Guantánamo, where the military court tried unsuccessfully to prosecute him. The board based its decision in part on "the detainee's lack of a leadership or facilitator position in al-Qaeda or the Taliban" and "improved record of compliance in detention