Pentagon Releases Five More Gitmo Detainees

The Pentagon has released five more detainees from the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The prisoners were taken into custody in Pakistan for suspected ties with al Qaeda. They'd been held at Guantanamo for a dozen years, but were never formally charged.

A government task force cleared the men for release but said they could not be returned to their homelands. The prisoners, two from Tunisia and three from Yemen, were sent to Kazakhstan.

While numbers of countries have accepted Guantanamo detainees for resettlement in the past, this is a first Kazakhstan.

The Obama administration has released close to 30 detainees despite congressional opposition. The latest release brings the prison population at the base to 127, the Pentagon said in a statement.