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Young Guantanamo Detainee Back In Afghanistan

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Aug. 24, 2009
Mohammed Jawad, now about 21, was welcomed home Monday by Afghanistan's president and joyful relatives after almost seven years in prison. A military judge ruled in October that he had been coerced into confessing he threw a grenade that injured U.S. soldiers.
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