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Afghanistan has demanded that the United States return a young Afghan detained throughout his teenage years in Guantanamo Bay, where lawyers said Monday he was tortured at the controversial prison.

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From Information Clearing House

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A child at Guantanamo

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Andy Worthington

06/01/09

In all the recent hysteria about the supposed dangers posed by the remaining 240 prisoners at Guantanamo, it has been easy to forget that sensible appraisals of the number of individuals with any meaningful connection to terrorism have long indicated that no more than a few dozen of those still held should be regarded as any kind of significant threat and that, therefore, the prison still holds over 200 prisoners who, at best, were low-level Taliban soldiers with a strong dislike of U.S. foreign policy, and, at worst, should never have been held at all...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com0906a.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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