A Tunisian recanted a confession that he had been a fighter against US forces when he appeared before a US military tribunal on Saturday, a military official said. Though the 35-year-old man also told US interrogators he had been to a military training camp in Afghanistan and had weapons training, this was withdrawn during the hearing at the Guantanamo Bay US Naval Base in Cuba, the official said. It was the 12th case to be handled by the tribunals, which are deciding if the 585 detainees at the detention center were correctly designated as "enemy combatants."

Six of the detainees whose cases have been heard so far have refused to attend.

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Source: Aftermath News Service
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