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“Senate OKs move of Gitmo prisoners to US for trial”
Published: 10.21.09, 00:35 / Israel News
SNIPPET: “The plan to permit terror suspects held at the facility to be shipped to US soil to face trial passed the US Senate by a 79-19 vote as part of a larger $44.1 billion budget bill for the Homeland Security Department.”
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Chinese Muslims from Guantánamo sent to Palau (Uighurs)
Telegraph (UK) ^ | 4:44PM GMT 01 Nov 2009 | Peter Foster
Posted on November 1, 2009 5:07:36 PM PST by Pan_Yan
Six Chinese Muslims who were held in the Guantánamo Bay prison camp for almost eight years have arrived on the tiny Pacific island of Palau.
The detainees from the Turkic Uighur minority were arrested in Afghanistan during the opening days of military operations in 2001 and held as suspected militants until last year when a US military tribunal decided they were not ‘enemy combatants’.
The release of the men, who were greeted on arrival by Palau’s President, Johnson Toribiong, is another small step in US President Barack Obama’s struggle to close the controversial prison camp by January.
Palau, situated 500 miles east of the Philippines, agreed to take the Uighur inmates after lawyers argued they were at risk of torture or execution if they were returned to China, which regards them as terrorists connected to a Uighur separatist movement.
“They appeared to be very happy,” said President Toribiong after meeting the men off their 17-hour military flight, “They smiled, they thanked me, they called me brother. It’s amazing. I feel really good about it.”
The men, aged between 31 and 40, will be housed together in Koror, the main town in Palau where most of the country’s 20,000 residents live and work.
They will enjoy sea-views and a five-minute walk to one of the two mosques that cater to Palau’s 500 Muslims, who are mostly migrant workers from Bangladesh.
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