Elian a teen in uniform

Cuba has released photos of one-time exile cause celebre Elian Gonzalez wearing an olive-green military school uniform and attending a Young Communist Union congress.

Gonzalez, now 16 with closely cropped black hair, is shown with fellow youth delegates during last weekend's congress.

When he was 5, Elian was found floating off the coast of Florida in an inner tube after his mother and others drowned trying to reach the United States. Elian's father remained in Cuba.

US immigration officials ruled the boy should return to Cuba over the objections of his Miami relatives and other exiles, creating a national furore.

Federal agents raided the Little Havana home of his uncle with guns drawn 10 years ago this month and seized the boy from a closet to return him to his father.