During the course of 2005, the US military gradually released many of those held there under a joint Afghan and US-backed reconciliation scheme known as the Takhim-e-Solh or "Strengthening Peace" programme.

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Noor Sweid El-Solh has an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and is the Managing Director of Strategy at Depa, an international interior contracting company listed on the Nasdaq Dubai.

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Noor Sweid El-Solh has an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and is the Managing Director of Strategy at Depa, an international interior contracting company listed on the Nasdaq Dubai and the co-founder of ZenYoga.

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