WASHINGTON: They arrived at Guantanamo Bay as young men, captured on the battlefields of Afghanistan and elsewhere early in America’s war on terror, following the September 11, 2001 attacks. “It also does not meet the requirements of the aging detainee population.”The Pentagon does not release any information about Guantanamo inmates, but leaked files published by WikiLeaks and the New York Times offer some insight. Neither the Pentagon nor Guantanamo Bay immediately responded to requests for comment for this story. A prisoner walks around a communal cellblock in the US Navy base at Guantanamo Bay. AFP PhotoIt already costs US taxpayers more than $450 million a year to keep the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.

Source: New Strait Times May 24, 2018 06:00 UTC