16 Afghans Freed After 4 Years of Hell at Bagram & Gitmo!

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I wonder how many of the other 400 are innocent? This is what the torture proponents do not get. Many of the people held without charges and tortured are INNOCENT! Not that torture is EVER okay!

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Afghan prisoners pray after their release in Kabul October 12, 2006. Exhausted, but happy, 16 Afghans were freed in Kabul on Thursday after being released by the U.S. military from its Guantanamo Bay jail. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood (AFGHANISTAN)




Aseel Khan (R) weeps as his brother, a freed prisoner (L), hugs a relative in Kabul October 12, 2006. Exhausted, but happy, 16 Afghans were freed in Kabul on Thursday after being released by the U.S. military from its Guantanamo Bay jail. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood (AFGHANISTAN)

Exhausted, 16 Afghans freed after Guantanamo Thu Oct 12, 7:43 AM ET


http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061012/pl_nm/afghan_prisoners_dc_1


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Several of the bearded men interviewed by journalists, some wearing green, hospital-style ID tags on their wrists, said they were treated badly by the U.S. military during their detention in Afghanistan and at the Guantanamo base in Cuba.

One, Sayed Mohammad Ali Shah, a doctor, said he had been arrested on false information given to the U.S. military by an Afghan with a personal grievance against him.

"They imprisoned me without any reason," he said at a ceremony held by Afghan authorities for the release of the prisoners. "Here, we were persecuted physically, but at Guantanamo we were persecuted mentally."

He was held for four years. The prisoners were freed recently and handed over to Afghan authorities, who held them for several more days before Thursday's release ceremony.

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More than 400 suspected militants, captured mostly in Afghanistan and Pakistan, remain there