A recently freed Palestinian prisoner has recounted his ordeal in various Israeli jails, especially the notorious Negev Prison, which he compared to the US-run Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib prisons, respectively in Cuba and Iraq.

Reliable sources confirm that Haji Bashar Noorzai, one of the people close to Mullah Mohammad Omar, the founder of the Islamic Emirate and the last Afghan prisoner of Guantanamo, arrived in Kabul this morning. Noorzai was one of the largest money changers in the south of the country, who had created a large network for currency exchange and remittances ...