The National: When Ahmad Khandan returned to Afghanistan after being held as a prisoner at the US detention camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, he barely recognised his family. He now had a young son, Bilal, whom he had never met and his brother, Qadir, had grown a beard. His mother and sister had both died in the intervening years and he was convinced it was “because of the sorrow and sadness” caused by his ordeal. “I didn’t feel the happiness of freedom,” he told The National. Click here to read more (external link).