U.S. Sends 4 Guantanamo Prisoners Home to Afghanistan

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (UPI) — Four Afghan prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility were released to their home country, the Pentagon announced Saturday.

{link:The men: “https://www.cnn.com/2014/12/20/us/guantanamo-detainees-repatriated/index.html?hpt=hp_t2″,nw} – Shawali Khan, Khi Ali Gul, Abdul Ghani and Mohammed Zahir – had been held at the camp for more than a decade. They were {link:transferred to Afghanistan: “https://www.defense.gov/Releases/Release.aspx?ReleaseID=17083″,nw} late Friday.

The move comes as President Obama reduces the Guantanamo population. There are 132 detainees remaining.