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Lobbying 2015: Kuwait secures Guantanamo releases

Kuwait is spending $2 million a year to convince the US to release its citizens from Guantanamo Bay. Its success ratio so far has been 11 : 1.
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Eleven down, one to go.

After a decade of lobbying and legal wrangling, Kuwait has recovered all but one of its 12 citizens who were captured in Afghanistan and sent to the US military facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Now the government-funded International Counsel Bureau, which represents the prisoners’ families, is focused on gaining the release of one last Kuwaiti, who has been imprisoned the past 13 years.

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