Posted on 11/22/2009 8:48:01 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
ALGIERS, Algeria -- An Algerian court on Sunday acquitted two former detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who were returned home to face charges of links to terrorism, their defense lawyer said.
Abdelli Faghoul and Terari Mohamed had admitted in court to links with the illegal drug underworld, but denied any connection to foreign terrorist groups, defense lawyer Farid Abbache-Holder told The Associated Press.
The two men were released from Guantanamo and handed over to Algerian authorities on Aug. 15, 2008 - nearly seven years after they were taken into custody and held without trial, the lawyer said.
The defendants traveled to Afghanistan after a decade in Germany, where they were involved in theft and the illegal drugs trade, Abbache said. Police in neighboring Pakistan arrested them after the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Afghanistan's Taliban regime following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks in the United States.
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Obama strikes out again!
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream.
It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same,
or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children
and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
President Ronald Reagan
The Gitmo policy shift began in 2006, not 2009.
CIA implanted subdermal GPS`s on them at Gitmo- they will lead us to Osamabummer Layin;low
coming soon to NYC
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