http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/24/AR2009082403164World DigestTuesday, August 25, 2009AFGHANISTANDetainee Arrives From GuantanamoA young Afghan whose six-year detention at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, came to symbolize many of the problems of the Bush administration's detention policies in its anti-terrorism efforts arrived in his home country Monday, less than a month after a federal judge in Washington ordered his release.Mohammed Jawad, whose confession to throwing a grenade that wounded two U.S. soldiers was rejected as coerced by torture, was taken to Kabul from Bagram air base and then to the office of the Afghan attorney general. One of his attorneys, Marine Maj. Eric Montalvo, said Jawad then met with President Hamid Karzai and was scheduled to be released to an uncle.A U.S. military judge at Guantanamo Bay ruled in October that Afghan police had threatened to kill Jawad and his family during his interrogation. Those threats constituted torture, Army Col. Stephen Henley said, and the confession was not admissible as evidence.U.S. District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle ordered Jawad's release on July 30, saying that without the confession, there was no evidence to link him to the grenade attack.Justice Department lawyers said they would seek new evidence against him. But no additional charges were filed, the military withdrew its charges, and Jawad arrived in Afghanistan hours before the Justice Department was due to report to Huvelle on his status.-- McClatchy Newspapers

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