Oldest Guantanamo Detainee Returns Home
The oldest detainee at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba -- an Afghan man who is at least 71 and uses a walker -- has been sent home, his lawyer said.
Haji Nasrat Khan was among five men from Afghanistan transferred over the weekend, said lawyer Peter Ryan, who received the news in an e-mail from the Justice Department.
Khan was never charged with a crime.
Ryan was not told why Khan was transferred and was trying to determine whether he would be kept in custody in Afghanistan. The U.S. military declined to comment.
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