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US: Majority of Gitmo Prisoners Low-Level Fighters

HeadlineJun 01, 2010

The US government has quietly acknowledged a majority of Guantánamo Bay prisoners held when President Obama took office were low-level fighters. In a study completed in January but released only on Friday, the Guantánamo Review Task Force determined that just ten percent of the 240 Guantanamo Bay prisoners were “leaders, operatives and facilitators involved in plots against the United States.” Five percent of prisoners were found to be unclassifiable. The Task Force says 126 prisoners should be transferred to their homes or a third country, thirty-six be prosecuted in a federal court or a military commission, and that forty-eight continue to be imprisoned indefinitely without charge or trial.

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