U.S. Releases More Than 80 Afghans From Military Jails (after 2.5 years)

Ok...ummm, it took us 2.5 yrs to decide these guys were not a threat and having them "swear loyalty to the Kabul government" is all it took? Hell, shrub "swore" to uphold the Constitution and HE has all but declared IT null and void!

http://www.kotv.com/main/home/storiesNL.asp?whichpage=1&id=82383

The U.S. military released more than 80 Afghans from its jails in Afghanistan on Sunday after deciding that they posed no threat and hearing them swear loyalty to the Kabul government, officials said.

Eighty-six men were brought by bus from the main American base at Bagram to the capital and freed after a closed-door ceremony, said Rahmat Nadim, an Afghan intelligence service official.

He said none of the men, who had spent up to two-and-a-half years in custody, had been taken to the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.


Groups of prisoners are regularly released from the military's jails in Afghanistan and Cuba. Seventeen Afghans arrived home from Guantanamo on April 19, some of them complaining of abuse by their captors.