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\"afghani-guantanamo\"CAIRO \u2014 Mohammed Jawad is still struggling to pick up the pieces of his lost childhood and teenage years after languishing for seven whole years in America\u2019s notorious Guantanamo detention center on terror charges.<\/div>\n

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\u201cI hadn\u2019t done anything \u2014 they took me for nothing,\u201d the young Afghan, who was released to Afghanistan earlier this week, told The Times on Thursday, August 27.
Jawad was arrested in 2002 when he was 12 on suspicions of throwing a grenade at US invading troops in Afghanistan.
“They knew I was underage but they did not care about my age.”
The teenager was first sent to a Kabul airbase before being flown to notorious Guantanamo, where his ordeal began.
“There was a lot of oppression when I was in Guantanamo,\u201d said a weary-looking Jawad.
“I was oppressed the whole time until I was released.\u201d
He described having his hands bound and stretched behind his back, and being forced to eat by bending over and putting his mouth into a plate of food.
“They insulted our religion and our holy Qur\u2019an, they insulted us and behaved in an inhumane way,” he lamented.
\u201cAnd these inhumane actions were not for just one day, one week or one month.\u201d
The US has been holding hundreds of detainees at Guantanamo for years, branding them unlawful enemy combatants to deny them legal rights under the American legal system.
President Barack Obama ordered in January the detention camp to be closed within a year and his administration is studying what to do with the nearly 230 prisoners still held there.<\/p>\n

Reunion<\/p>\n

Spending seven years in Guantanamo, Jawad was released to Afghanistan earlier this week after a US judge ruled that his confession had been obtained by force.
\u201cAll I could do was hope that one day I\u2019d be free and back home in Afghanistan with my mother,\u201d he recalled.
Jawad was arrested when he was living with his mother in Kabul, as his father died during fighting against the Soviets in the 1980s.
His mother could not believe her son would be back into her arms.
Hearing of his return, the bereaved mother fainted in a fit of hysterics, said a family friend.
She only realized that her beloved son was back again when she checked for a distinctive bump on the back of his head, said Sher Khan Jalalkhil, a close friend of Jawad\u2019s father.
\u201cWe searched for him for nine months,\u201d he recalled.
\u201cWe didn\u2019t know if he had been killed, or kidnapped, or got lost. His mother went crazy.\u201d
The mother only got a sigh of relief when she was told by a member of the International Committee of the Red Cross that Jawad was in Guantanamo.
But she got terrified as news kept coming about the horrific treatment of detainees at the notorious detention camp.
Jawad is now making plans to resume his studies \u2014 first in Afghanistan, then maybe overseas \u2014 and train to become a doctor.
Asked if he would consider studying in the US, he hesitated and looked to the assembled elders for advice.
\u201cI have not made any plans yet.\u201d
His lawyer Eric Montalzo said they would be asking for compensations for the hellish years he spent behind Guantanamo walls.
\u201cHe has been in a cage for seven years. So it\u2019s very difficult for him,\u201d he said.
\u201cHe is a fragile human being and we need to protect him and his interests.\u201d<\/p>\n

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