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2557690Washington Examiner:

Kelly Cohen

December 20, 2014

 

Four Guantanamo Bay detainees have been transferred to Afghanistan.

 

Shawali Khan, Khi Ali Gul, Abdul Ghani and Mohammed Zahir will be moved from the detention center in Cuba to the custody of the government of Afghanistan, the Department of Defense announced Saturday.

 

The reason for the release lies in what was found by the interagency Guantanamo Review Task Force, part of an executive order by President Obama in 2009. As a result of the review, these men “were unanimously approved for transfer by the six departments and agencies comprising the task force,” according to the Pentagon.

 

The Center for Constitutional Rights, an organization that has been legally challenging Guantanamo Bay for nearly 13 years, praised the release. CCR’s lead counsel had been working on Shawali Khan's case for years.

 

“The Afghanistan conflict has been the longest in U.S. history, and under U.S. and international law, including the laws of war, the remaining detainees must be released without delay,” the group said in a statement.

 

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