Guantanamo General to Seek 3 Youths’ Release
The general in charge of the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, wants to send home three boys under 16 whose detention provoked an outcry from human rights groups, a military official said.
Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller will recommend that the Defense Department release the three to their home countries because they can provide no further useful information, a Guantanamo spokeswoman, Lt. Col. Pamela Hart, said.
The juveniles were pressed into battle by Afghan warlords and captured in Afghanistan during the war to oust Al Qaeda and the Taliban, U.S. officials had said.
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