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 RABAT, Morocco (AP) - Mohammed Hassi cried while watching the last Moroccan prisoners of war leave the plane that carried them to freedom.
"I was reminded of the day I was released myself," said Hassi, 55, a former soldier freed in 2002 after spending a quarter-century as a prisoner of Polisario Front guerrillas. "It felt like being born again."
Bassou Khachouni, a 57-year-old who was freed by Polisario in 2003 — after 24 years, one month and three days of captivity — also shed tears watching the televised event. He said the POWs' release completed his own freedom.
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