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Washington, Apr 25 (ANI): Around 700 leaked US classified military documents have revealed that some suspects were detained for years in the Guantánamo Bay prison on ‘flimsy ground’.

According to The New York Times, the dossiers show that some men had spend precious years of their lives despite being ‘innocent’ because they were held on mistaken identity or simple misfortune.

In May 2003, Afghan forces had captured Prisoner 1051, including an Afghan named Sharbat, near the scene of a roadside bomb explosion, but the man denied any wrongdoing by repeatedly saying that he was just a shepherd.

Guantánamo analysts accepted his claims after discovering his immense knowledge of herding animals and his ignorance of “simple military and political concepts,” the documents revealed.

However, a military tribunal declared him an “enemy combatant”, and he was not released until 2006.

The assessment of detainees written by military intelligence officials between February 2002 and January 2009 also evaluated the prisoners’ histories and provided glimpses of the tensions between captors and captives.

The documents, obtained by the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks last year but provided to The Times by another source, have also rated the remaining 172 prisoners as a “high risk” of posing a threat to the United States and its allies if released without adequate rehabilitation and supervision.

They also revealed that But an even larger number of the prisoners who have left Cuba, about a third of the 600 already transferred to other countries, were also designated “high risk” before they were freed or passed to the custody of other governments, the paper said.

A detailed account of prisoners being tortured were also highlighted, one of them being the case of a Saudi 9/11 terrorist attack suspect who was leashed like a dog, sexually humiliated and forced to urinate on himself.

The leaked documents further show that many countries, including China, Russia, Tajikistan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Kuwait, Algeria and Tunisia, had sent intelligence officers to question Guantánamo detainees. (ANI)