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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-10-09 08:23 AM
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Three more Guantanamo inmates await transfer
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Three Guantanamo inmates who have been cleared of terror charges will be transferred from the facility "very soon," US sources told AFP Tuesday.

The three detainees to be released from the infamous war on terror facility in southern Cuba include Saber Lahmar, 39, an Algerian arrested in Bosnia at the end of 2001 who was cleared by a US judge in November 2008 after seven and a half years' confinement.

The two other soon-to-be-freed inmates remain unidentified, but one of them is a young man with dual Chad and Saudi nationalities who has already been cleared for release.

Robert Kirsch, an attorney representing the Algerian prisoner, told AFP that his client fears being sent back to Bosnia ...

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