As many articles as I read about this, I cannot understand why people simply fail to acknowledge the fundamental wrong of it. I wouldnt personally apologise but I admit to being ashamed of how my government behaved.  By that I mean there were other countries including U.S., Australia, with rogue citizens fighting with the Taliban.  They took them back and they paid whatever price they had to pay in their own country.  Our government left a child - yes a child (a 'child soldier' defined by the Geneva convention as one under 18) on his own in the hell-hole that is Guantanamo.  They topped that off by participating in/facilitating his torture, some of the stuff described in an article here was horrific. Even when U.S. signaled their willingness to send him back they refused and fought in court to not do it; clearly the U.S. was embarrassed because the world knew about him.  BTW, he is the ONLY one convicted of crime related  this war.  The blame lies with his terrorist parents and harper.