U.S. Releases 4 From Guantanamo Prison

U.S. military authorities have released four prisoners who had been held for months at the Navy detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and will release others soon, officials said.

The four -- three Afghans and a Pakistani -- are the first group to be released from the prison since it began housing in January detainees captured abroad.

U.S. officials declined to release the names or nationalities of the men, but sources in Pakistan identified the freed Pakistani detainee as Mohammed Sagheer, 60, who is from the North-West Frontier Province that borders Afghanistan. Pakistani newspapers reported that officials there said they will debrief Sagheer before releasing him to his family in the town of Mansehra.

Private aid officials confirmed the other men released were from Afghanistan, but their identities could not be learned.

Officials said they plan to free small groups of detainees from Guantanamo Bay after determining they have no value for U.S. intelligence and do not pose a terrorist danger.