KEN240913aa001NAIROBI — When President Obama returns to the United States after his visit to East Africa, some Kenyans hope he’ll consider releasing one of their countrymen from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba.

Sen. Hassan Omar, a Kenyan lawmaker who represents the largely Muslim city of Mombasa on the coast of the Indian Ocean, wants Obama to set free alleged al-Qaeda-linked terrorist Abdul Malik.

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