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July 29, 2009

Afghanistan Offers to Repatriate Gitmo Teen
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At Guantanamo Bay, a teenage Afghan prisoner has been transferred to a
section reserved for those cleared for release. The prisoner, Mohamed
Jawad, was as young as twelve at the time of his capture seven years ago
in Afghanistan. Last week, the Obama administration admitted it could no
longer hold Jawad as an enemy combatant after a federal judge ruled his
confession was obtained through torture, but it had asked to continue
imprisoning Jawad until deciding whether to bring him to the US for a
criminal trial. On Tuesday, the Afghan government said it’s prepared to
send a plane to bring Jawad home.



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