1. NIGERIA - Dele Olojede Some of Nigerias most pointed political commentary comes from two of the countrys literary giants, novelist Chinua Achebe and playwright Wole Soyinka.

2. NIGERIA – Dele Olojede Some of Nigeria‘s most pointed political commentary comes from two of the country‘s literary giants, novelist Chinua Achebe and playwright Wole Soyinka.

3. Dele Olojede won a Pulitzer prize for international reporting last year for his coverage of the 10th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide.

4. One of the released prisoners, Sayed Mohammead Ali Shah, said he had been a dele–gate at the country’s first loya jirga, a council of leaders that helped establish the in–terim government in 2002 after the U.S.–led invasion to oust the Taliban in 2001. «For four years they put me in jail in Cuba for nothing,» said Shah, a doctor from the eastern province of Paktia whose hands shook from nervousness when he spoke. «All these people (the other prisoners) and all those Afghans still in Cuba, they are innocent,» he told reporters. «All were arrested because of false reports, and the Americans, without investigating, they arrested innocent people and put them in jail for a long time.» Another former prisoner, 20–year–old Habib Rahman, said he was arrested because he had a weapon in his home. «They told me, ‘You are against us, you are anti–American and anti–government and you are fighting with us,’» said Rahman. «At that time in our area everyone had weap–ons.