U.S. authorities are releasing one of 11 Kuwaiti detainees held at a military detention center for terror suspects in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, raising questions about why others are not being freed, according to a group of family members and a lawyer. Nasser al-Mutairi, a 26-year-old employee of the Kuwaiti Education Ministry whose family says he was teaching English in Afghanistan when he was captured three years ago, is expected home soon aboard a special plane sent by the Kuwaiti government, said Kalid al-Odha, the father of another Kuwaiti detainee.
U.S. officials declined to comment. "Our policy has always been that if detainees are transferred we will only announce it once it is complete," said Defense Department spokesman Maj. Michael Shavers. He confirmed that department also refuses to give information about individual detainees. |