Eighty-one "Taliban" detainees released

The US has released 81 detainees from custody in Afghanistan, before the Eid feast. The men were held in Khost, in Kandahar and at Bagram Air Base.

Two buses brought the 81 Afghan prisoners from the main U.S. base at Bagram to the Supreme Court in the capital, Kabul, where the chief justice warned them to stay out of trouble and say little about their detention.

"Don't sabotage the security or the government, and God will be pleased with you," Fazl Hadi Shinwari told the men, seated in a hall at the court before being allowed to complete their journey home.

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Shinwari said Sunday's release was part of that program and added that Afghan officials were negotiating the releases of about 400 people in U.S. custody in Afghanistan and others in Guantanamo.

"The government doesn't want one prisoner to be left in jail," he said. "They will be released."