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Appeals court upholds Afghan’s Guantánamo detention

 
Mullah Mohammed Fasl and Khairullah Khairkhwa, right, are two former Taliban leaders currently held by the U.S. in Cuba whose release is reportedly sought. .
Mullah Mohammed Fasl and Khairullah Khairkhwa, right, are two former Taliban leaders currently held by the U.S. in Cuba whose release is reportedly sought. .
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WASHINGTON (AP) – An appeals court has upheld a lower judge’s decision not to release a former high-ranking Taliban government official from Guantánamo Bay.

Friday’s decision was the latest blow to efforts to win release for Khairullah Khairkhwa, who had been a Taliban governor and interior minister.

Last December, a few months after a federal judge refused to release him, The Associated Press reported that Khairkhwa was one of five Afghan prisoners at Guantánamo who were being considered for release as part of a peace deal with the Taliban.

But talks with the Taliban broke off in March.

His lawyers argued that he was merely a civil servant and had no military role.

But the appeals court concluded that Khairkhwa “was at least more likely than not a part of the Taliban forces.”

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