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| U.S. releases juveniles from Guantanamo prison |
| By NBC, Associated Press, Reuters |
| Published: 01/30/2004 |
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Three juveniles have been released from the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and returned home after more than a year in captivity, the Defense Department announced Thursday. The three boys, believed to range in age from 13 to 15, were captured in Afghanistan and held as enemy combatants, military officials told NBC News on condition of anonymity. They said that because the youths would not or could not tell their captors how old they were, the military conducted bone scans to determine their approximate ages. The boys were sent back to their home country, the Defense Department said. It would not identify the country, but a U.S. official told Reuters on condition of anonymity that the youngsters were returned to Afghanistan. Two of the boys were captured during U.S. and allied raids on Taliban camps in Afghanistan; the third was captured trying to obtain weapons for the Taliban, the Defense Department said. All three had arrived at the Guantanamo prison in February 2003, a spokeswoman at the prison said. Military officials said it had been determined that the boys no longer posed a threat to the United States. They have no further value as interrogation subjects and are not going to be tried by the U.S. government for any crimes, the military said. |
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