2 Guantanamo detainees released to home countries

WASHINGTON - U.S. officials say two more Guantanamo Bay detainees have been released and sent to their home countries of Iraq and Chad.

The U.S. Justice Department says Jawad Jabber Sadkhan was sent to Iraq Wednesday night.

Mohammed el-Gharani, the youngest detainee at Guantanamo, arrived in Chad Thursday.

The transfers come as four other detainees arrived Thursday in Bermuda, bringing the total number still at Guantanamo to 232.

The first Guantanamo detainee sent to the United States arrived early this week, when officials sent Ahmed Ghailani to New York to face trial.

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  In this photo taken Wednesday, May 13, 2009, and reviewed by the U.S. military, the sun rises over the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, in Cuba. (AP / Brennan Linsley)