MIAMI — The Pentagon dropped war crimes charges against a Kuwaiti prisoner at Guantanamo late Friday and a US official said the United States and Kuwait were in talks about the possibility of repatriating the last two Kuwaitis held there. Kuwait is a US ally and the Gulf state's parliament has condemned the continued detention of its citizens, Faiz Al-Kandari and Fawazi Al-Odah, at the Guantanamo Bay US military base in Cuba, where both have been held for more than a decade. Kuwait's state news agency KUNA reported late Friday that a Kuwaiti delegation had held talks with US officials seeking their return. It quoted Kuwait's ambassador to Washington, Salem Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, as saying more talks were expected in the upcoming weeks. A senior US official confirmed that a Kuwaiti team had recently visited Washington to discuss the matter but suggested the talks would be long and challenging. — Reuters
