Eleven detainees at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay - eight Afghans and three Jordanians - have been transferred to the custody of their home countries, the Pentagon announced yesterday.Here's the DoD press release.
The men were flown out of the U.S. naval base in southeast Cuba after a military review was conducted at Guantanamo gauging whether the prisoners have intelligence value or pose a threat to the United States.
Roughly 320 detainees remain at Guantanamo on suspicion of links to al Qaeda or the Taliban, including 80 who have been deemed eligible for transfer or release, according to the Defense Department.
Meanwhile, even more joyous news for America-haters.
Bush Administration officials are considering granting Guantanamo prisoners substantially greater rights as part of an effort to close the prison and possibly move many of its inmates to the United States, officials involved in the talks say.
One proposal being widely discussed in the Administration would overhaul the procedure for determining whether prisoners are properly held by granting them legal representation at detention hearings and by giving federal judges, not military officers, the power to decide whether suspects should be held.
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