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Carol Rosenberg, The Miami Herald: "The US government has for months been seeking a nation to offer asylum to some 17 Uighurs with Chinese citizenship who fear persecution and perhaps torture if they are returned to their communist-controlled homeland. Attorney General Eric Holder has said he was willing to resettle some in the United States. But some members of Congress have rebelled, casting them as terrorists and creating a deadlock on the future of the men whom a federal judge ordered released from these remote prison camps in October 2008."

http://www.truthout.org/060309E

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Obama’s failure to deliver justice to the last Tajik in Guantanamo

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Andy Worthington

07/21/09

Two weeks ago, the indefatigable Carol Rosenberg of the Miami Herald, Guantanamo’s most dedicated reporter, outlined the story of Umar Abdulayev, the last Tajik prisoner in Guantanamo, who has been cleared for release from the prison on two occasions — once by a military review board under the Bush administration, and six weeks ago by the Obama administration’s inter-departmental Guantanamo Task Force, established by President Obama on his second day in office...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com0907f.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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