After 6+ Years at Guantanamo, Mohamed Jawad Returns Home

A young Afghan prisoner has returned to Afghanistan following his release from Guantanamo Bay. Mohamed Jawad arrived in Kabul on Monday. He was ordered freed last month after more than six years at Guantanamo. He was as young as twelve at the time of his capture and was tortured and threatened into confessing to throwing a grenade at a US soldier. Full Story »

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by Dwight Rousu - Aug. 25, 2009

A quite personal reporting of the story of Mohamed Jawad. Very lightly reported by mainscream news over the years.

This abuse of human values by U.S. military and intelligence should help lead to prosecutions of top level enablers of torture and child imprisonment.

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