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Young Afghan struggles to adapt after Guantanamo
latimes.com - 10/27/2009
Young Afghan struggles to adapt after Guantanamo
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Afghan detainee Mohammed Jawad, left, sits with his cousin Bader at his family home in Kabul. Jawad is believed to have been the youngest detainee at Guantanamo Bay. ( Paula Bronstein / Getty Images )

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Young Afghan Grasps at Former Life After Seven Years at Guantanamo
Politics Daily — ... Tuesday's Los Angeles Times follows Jawad as he returns to Afghanistan, where he instinctively sits with the children despite being 19 years old, and where "old friends he last saw when they were flying kites are now in college, married with children, enjoying their careers." His mother did not recognize him, and fainted when he showed her special mark on his head. Now strangers welcome him with kisses on the streets of Kabul, but he is struggling to recover his former life. ...

Freed Gitmo detainee is still tortured
The Political Carnival — ... The effects of being locked up in a cell at Guantanamo Bay and tortured for years, especially if you're an impressionable teenager, lasts well beyond the time spent imprisoned. Case in point: ...

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