Guantanamo prisoner: I'm just a cook

An Afghan prisoner made an impassioned plea for his release, telling a US military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay that he worked as an assistant cook for the Taliban regime but was never an enemy of America.

The 24-year-old Afghan prisoner rocked back and forth and fidgeted with his shackled hands as he asked to call four witnesses at his afternoon hearing at the US naval base in Cuba yesterday.