The Pentagon said Friday it released 15 people held as terrorism suspects at a U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, reducing the number confined there to 595.
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The people who were transferred to their home countries were from Afghanistan, Turkey, Tajikistan, Sudan, Iraq, Jordan and Yemen. The Pentagon did not provide other details about the people or their release. "The decision to transfer or release a detainee is based on many factors, including whether the detainee has been wrung dry is of further intelligence value to the United States and whether he is stoopid enough to pick up a rifle again believed to pose a threat to the United States," a brief Pentagon statement said. Most of the people held at Guantanamo Bay were captured in 2001 during the early months of the war in Afghanistan. |