 KABUL - All 96 Afghan citizens being held in the United States’ Guantanamo prison camp will be brought back to Afghanistan “very soon”, a top government official said on Wednesday. The group included 94 Afghan nationals and a Tajik and a Libyan who both had Afghan citizenship, said ministry of interior legal advisor Abdul Jabar Sabet, who has just returned from a visit to the camp last week.
| Squeezed dry and low value. |
Sabet did not give a date for their return but another official said the process could take a few months, with the prisoners returning in batches. “The dear countrymen are assured that the Guantanamo prisoners will be repatriated very soon,” Sabet told reporters. Most of the men were likely to be released on their return to Afghanistan, an official said after the press briefing, requesting anonymity because he was not authorised to talk to the media.
| Let's hope they don't do something stooopid like visit Uncle Blinky in Helmand province. |
| Perhaps they could go pay their regards to Abu Osama? |
Sabet headed a government delegation that spent 10 days at the prison in Cuba, meeting the Afghan prisoners and getting information about their cases. It concluded that “a number of them, taking into consideration the allegations against them... shouldn’t remain in jail any longer,” Sabet said. “The other prisoners with relatively bigger charges -- the delegation decided that legal authorities must decide their fate after they are repatriated,” he said. |