KUWAIT CITY - Two Kuwaitis held at the US prison in Guantanamo Bay will be released in about two weeks, the head of a private group that campaigns for their freedom said on Saturday. “I was informed by (Foreign Minister) Sheik Mohammed Al Sabah that they would be back in Kuwait before (the Muslim holy month of) Ramadan,” said Khaled al-Odah, who leads the Kuwaiti Family Committee for the Detainees in Guantanamo, a private group comprised of detainees’ relatives.Al-Odah, whose group works separately but closely with the government, identified the men as Omar Rajab Amin, 39, and Abdullah Kamel al-Kandari, 33.
| Here's hoping they waddle off the plane. |
Al-Kandari was arrested in Afghanistan in December 2001, and Amin was arrested in Pakistan around the same time, al-Odah said. The menÂ’s families have said they were in the two countries to do charity work, not to fight for Al Qaeda or the Taleban.
| Just pious men collecting for the Widows Ammunition Fund. |