US judge orders Guantanamo prisoner released

WASHINGTON, July 30 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Thursday ordered that one of the youngest detainees held at the controversial Guantanamo Bay prison be released for what is expected to be a trip home to Afghanistan.

U.S. District Court Judge Ellen Huvelle said she expected Mohammed Jawad -- accused of throwing a grenade that injured two U.S. soldiers and their interpreter in Kabul in late 2002 -- to be en route to Afghanistan by Aug. 24. (Reporting by Jeremy Pelofsky, editing by Bill Trott)

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