A mother hugs her son following his release from a US military prison in Baghdad on September 20. American authorities have freed 2,404 detainees in four weeks of Ramadan, the US military said, still short of the 3,000 the military promised in early September to release during the Muslim fasting month. (AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)From Yahoo News/AP:
BAGHDAD (AFP) - US authorities have freed 2,404 detainees in the four weeks of Ramadan, the American military said on Monday, still short of the 3,000 they promised to release during the Muslim fasting month.
Releases accelerated in the past week as 955 were freed, compared to a total of 1,449 for the first three weeks of Ramadan, the military said in a statement.
At the begining of the fasting month, the US military promised to free about 3,000 detainees during Ramadan which ends this week.
However, the US military said they expected more people to be released in the next few days.
"The projections for the final few days of the Ramadan release period are ambitious and assume no delays or unexpected interruptions to the release process," the statement added.
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My Comment: Let us hope that these released prisoners do not return to what got them there in the first place.