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Judge Orders Release of Five Guantanamo Prisoners

HeadlineNov 21, 2008

A federal judge has ordered the immediate release of five Algerians held at Guantanamo. US District Judge Richard Leon said the government’s evidence linking the men to al-Qaeda was not credible, because it came from a single, unidentified source. The men have been held for seven years.

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