Afghan national freed from Guantanamo Bay after 15 years

AP ^ | June 24 | By MUNIR AHMED

[RandFan]

ISLAMABAD (AP) — An Afghan prisoner held in U.S. custody for nearly 15 years has been released from the Guantanamo Bay detention center after a federal court ruled that he was unlawfully detained, the U.S. Department of Defense said Friday.

Asadullah Haroon Gul’s release was first announced earlier in the day by the Taliban in Afghanistan and an international human rights group.

From Kabul, Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban-appointed deputy culture and information minister, tweeted that Gul was one of the last two Afghan prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay.

Photographs of Gul being greeted by senior Taliban officials in Doha, Qatar, were posted on Twitter later in the day. Mujahid thanked Qatar for facilitating Gul’s release, without elaborating.

The United States opened the detention center under President George W. Bush in January 2002 after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the invasion of Afghanistan to capture al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.

[piasa]

Some Democrat probably just received a large donation from a Qatar lobbyist...

[Lurkinanloomin]

Gee, why didn’t they provide him a place here..?...../s

[Delta 21]

Right on que.

[Paleo Conservative]

So basically the Biden Just Us department refused to appeal the decision of the lower court.

[caww]

This guys no different than all the others there - he’s gone the starvation route and such. From Obama to Trump they refused his release. So what changed now.

[353FMG]

Going from luxurious living quarters back to his shithole.

[whitney69]

I’ll bet they bring him back to train him in something at the University of Delaware in Newark or Syracuse University probably set up as a reparation using federal tax money.

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