US admits to holding teenage terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay

TERROR suspects under age 16 are being held at the US detention camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a military official has confirmed.

The teenagers are kept in cells separate from the adult detainees but also are considered enemy combatants, Lieutenant Colonel Barry Johnson, chief spokesman for the mission, said.

He would not say how many teenagers are being held, only that they are “very few, a very small number,” nor would he say how old the youngest prisoner is.