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THREATS AND RESPONSES: THE DETAINEES; Some Guantánamo Prisoners Will Be Freed, Rumsfeld Says [1]

['Katharine Q. Seelye']

Date: 2002-10-23

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said today that a small number of the nearly 600 prisoners being held in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, would be released to their home countries because they were no longer of interest to the United States.

He did not say how many there were, what countries they were from or when they would be released.

Mr. Rumsfeld, who earlier this year called the prisoners ''the worst of the worst,'' seemed to play down the significance of the release, which he disclosed in response to a question.

''There are some people likely to come out the other end of the chute,'' he told reporters casually.

Relatives of prisoners from Pakistan and Kuwait have maintained that their sons or husbands are innocent and that they had been picked up in Afghanistan and thrown into jail at Guantánamo Bay because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Mr. Rumsfeld said he was unaware of the nationality of those being released.

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[1] Url: https://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/23/world/threats-responses-detainees-some-guantanamo-prisoners-will-be-freed-rumsfeld.html

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