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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Ellen Knickmeyer

2 Pakistanis leave Guantanamo after 20 years without charges

Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

U.S. officials returned two Pakistani brothers to their home country Thursday after holding them two decades without charges at the Guantanamo Bay military prison.

Abdul and Mohammed Rabbani were the latest detainees to be released from U.S. custody as the U.S. moves toward emptying and shutting down the prison. The George W. Bush administration set it up at a naval base in Cuba for extremist suspects rounded up after the Sept. 11, 2001 al-Qaida attacks on the United States.

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