Yasser Esam Hamdi, a US-born Saudi held for nearly three years in the United States as a terror suspect, arrived in Saudi Arabia Monday and renounced his US citizenship, an interior ministry spokesman said.
"Yasser Esam Hamdi, who had been detained in the United States, arrived in the kingdom today and was greeted by his family," the spokesman said, quoted by the official SPA news agency.
He had been held in South Carolina for most of the time since being brought to the United States from Afghanistan in early 2002. He had allegedly fought with the hard-line Taleban.
"As soon as he arrived, he announced he was renouncing his US citizenship. He will be treated according to laws in force in the kingdom," the Saudi spokesman said.
Hamdi had to renounce US citizenship as part of the deal under which he was sent back.