A US judge has ruled the confession of a young Guantanamo Bay prisoner cannot be used, because it was obtained through torture. Mohamed Jawad was arrested in Afghanistan when he was sixteen or seventeen years old on allegations of wounding US soldiers with a grenade. The court backed Jawad’s claims he was drugged and threatened with death by Afghan officials unless he admitted to the charges. Jawad was turned over to US forces and sent to Guantanamo Bay. His was one of five cases that led his prosecutor, Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, to resign last month. Vandeveld has accused the military of deliberately withholding evidence that could have helped clear the prisoners.