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6 Gitmo Prisoners Freed

HeadlineJun 12, 2009

The news comes as four of the Uyghur prisoners have been released to Bermuda, where they will live as foreign guest workers. The US is still in talks to send the remaining thirteen to the Pacific archipelago of Palau. Two other Guantanamo prisoners were also released Thursday and sent to their home countries of Iraq and Chad. The Chadian, Mohammed El Gharani, was the youngest Guantanamo Bay prisoner on record, having been arrested in Pakistan at the age of fourteen.

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