http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/SP280101.htmKABUL, Jan 16 (Reuters) - U.S. forces in Afghanistan have freed 81 Taliban prisoners from a jail at the Bagram air base, north of the capital Kabul, the Afghan chief justice said on Sunday.
An Afghan Supreme Court official said earlier the men had been released from the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, but the chief justice said the suspects had never left Afghanistan.
"They have been released from Bagram," Chief Justice Fazl Hadi Shinwari told reporters. "We will give them clothes and then send them home."
He said U.S. authorities had said they would free their remaining Afghan prisoners.
"There are another 400 Taliban in Bagram and they (the U.S. military) have promised to release all Taliban from Bagram and Guantanamo Bay," he said.
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Why do I have the sneaking suspicion that this is part of some type of prisoner swap?
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