Khalid Al-Ouda, the head of the Kuwaiti Committee of Guantanamo Detainees' Families , announced on Sunday that that Kuwaiti Gitmo detainee Khalid Al-Mutairi would be returned to Kuwait early next month. This follows the extensive joint efforts made by the Amiri Diwan and the ministries of the Interior and of Foreign Affairs, he explained, with all these bodies coming together to urge the US administration to release Al-Mutairi, following his acquittal in a US court.

Al-Ouda also revealed that his son, Fawzi Al-Odah, detained in Guantanamo since 2002, is also expected to be released within the next few months, after the processes of rehabilitation and security put in place for Al-Mutairi's return have been monitored.

Al-Ouda said that the US administration had commented positively on the rehabilitation procedures which Kuwait is subjecting all former Gitmo detainees to, while also calling on the US government to abide by its promise to return all the pardoned Kuwaiti Gitmo detainees to Kuwait in a timely manner.

Al-Ouda also reiterated the promises of the detainees' families, that their loved ones would not participate in or return to terrorist activities after their release, reported Al-Qabas. Kuwait's social structure does not include terrorist components, he said, adding that those few cases that had been discovered were very much abnormalities in Kuwaiti society.

The committee head also talked about the released detainees' families roles in their rehabilitation, emphasizing that the families would exert every possible effort to help their loved ones and assist them in reintegrating into society after being detained for up to eight years.

He said that this mission would be relatively easy since recent meetings with the detainees indicated that none of them possessed any extremist ideologies.\

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