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From the NY Times, 17 Afghans Freed from Guantanamo Prison ("Seventeen Afghan detainees released from the American prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, were formally handed over to Afghan authorities here on Tuesday. Some of the men publicly denounced their imprisonment as unjust and condemned the American and Afghan governments for a system that is holding hundreds of prisoners in limbo outside their home countries. In a brief ceremony, Chief Justice Fazil Hadi Shinwari told the 17 men that they were free to return home and he tried to reconcile them to the idea their imprisonment was something sent from God. Some prisoners in Guantánamo were guilty and deserved to be imprisoned, he said, but others were innocent victims of false accusations or military mistakes, or were duped into supporting terrorism."); Complaints of Religious Harassment at Air Force Academy ("Less than two years after it was plunged into a rape scandal, the Air Force Academy is scrambling to address complaints that evangelical Christians wield so much influence at the academy that religious harassment has become pervasive. There have been 55 complaints of religious discrimination in the last four years, including cases in which one Jewish cadet said he was told that the Holocaust was revenge for the death of Jesus and another said he was called a Christ killer. The 4,300-student academy recently started requiring staff members and cadets to take a 50-minute class in religious tolerance. More than 90 percent of the cadets identify themselves as Christian.").

From the Washington Post, 18 More Detainees Leave Guantanamo.