Panel: Guantanamo detainee wrongly named enemy combatant
Wednesday, September 8, 2004 at 03:35AM
TheSpook
Two-and-a-half years after he was captured in
Afghanistan and detained by the U.S. military as an "enemy combatant,"
a prisoner at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has been told
he will be allowed to go home, Pentagon officials said Wednesday. A
three-person military panel determined after reviewing his case that he
does not fit the definition of an enemy combatant, Navy Secretary
Gordon England told a Pentagon news conference. England declined to
disclose the man's name, nationality or case details. He said the State
Department is making arrangements for the man to be returned to his
home country within days or weeks. Of the 30 Guantanamo Bay detainee
cases reviewed thus far in a process that began Aug. 13, this is the
first one that concluded with a finding that the detainee is not an
enemy combatant. [more ]
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