Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
The U.S. released four prisoners of war from secret detention this week, declaring them “not a real threat.” The three Afghans and one Pakistani were the first prisoners from the Afghan war to be freed from the naval base here. Jan Mohammed, who said he had been conscripted to fight for the Taliban, said that other than grueling 24-hour confinement, detainees are treated well, given enough food, and allowed to pray five times a day. “There are three kinds people in Guantanamo,” said Mohammed, sitting with his two fellow countrymen, both in their late 70s and feeble. “One is the real fighters, the others were forced to fight, and the third group is like these guys.”
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