Guantanamo prisoner detained as teen released, meets with Karzai

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Source: McClatchy Newspapers

Guantanamo prisoner detained as teen released, meets with Karzai
By Jonathan S. Landay and Carol Rosenberg, McClatchy Newspapers 1 hr 53 mins ago

KABUL, Afghanistan — A young Afghan whose six-year detention at Guantanamo came to symbolize many of the problems of the Bush administration's war on terror detention policies arrived in his home country Monday less than a month after a federal judge in Washington ordered his release.

Mohammed Jawad , whose confession to throwing a hand grenade that wounded two U.S. soldiers was rejected as coerced by torture, was helicoptered into Kabul from Bagram Air Base and taken to the office of the Afghan attorney general.

One of his defense attorneys, Marine Major Eric Montalvo , said Jawad then met with President Hamid Karzai and was scheduled to be released to an uncle.

"It's still not over until he can walk free, but he is almost there," said Montalvo, who flew as a private citizen to Afghanistan after the Pentagon refused him permission to witness his client's release. "I don't trust anything until I see him in his house with his family."

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1. and so what if he did throw the handgrenade?

Can you imagine if you are a US navy seal, and the poor 14 year old kid you did battle with (and shot, btw) is now being tortured and held w/o end in sight in an American prison. It would make me wonder just what I was fighting for.