US to send six more Guantanamo prisoners home

MIAMI: A military review panel has ruled six more Guantanamo prisoners are not enemy combatants, bringing to 12 the number designated for release from the US prison for suspected terrorists during the widely criticized reviews. A Pentagon spokeswoman declined to identify the prisoners or their nationalities but said Tuesday that the US State Department was arranging their return to their home nations. One has already been released and the other 11 are still at the US Naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, said the spokeswoman, Navy Capt. Beci Brenton. The widely criticized review tribunals have so far ruled that 410 other Guantanamo prisoners were enemy combatants, and final decisions are still pending in 136 cases. The Pentagon created the “Combatant Status Review Tribunals” after the Supreme Court ruled in July that the Guantanamo prisoners had the right to challenge their indefinite detention. reuters

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