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Pentagon to Release Prisoners From Guantanamo, Rumsfeld Says
foxnews.com ^ | October 22, 2002
Posted on 10/22/2002 2:14 PM Mountain by Sweet_Sunflower29
The U.S. government is preparing to free a small number of prisoners from its high-security jail in Cuba, in what would be the first release of combatants who are no longer considered a terrorist threat, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld said Tuesday.
"There are some people likely to come out of the other end of the chute," Rumsfeld told a Pentagon press conference.
Other officials said on condition of anonymity that it could be within days.
Rumsfeld said officials were vetting the prisoners to make sure they were not candidates for prosecution, no longer of any intelligence value, and not a threat to the United States and its allies.
The first batch to be let go includes "a relatively small number" of men, he said, adding that he didn't know their nationalities.
Pakistani officials have said a visit to the prison turned up a number of Pakistanis who do not represent a threat to the United States.
The government, a major U.S. ally in the counter-terror war, has asked the men to allowed to return to Pakistan. It's unclear how many other countries have sought release of their nationals.