French free ex-Guantanamo inmates

Published: 25 February 2009 y., Wednesday
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Guantanamo Bay was set up to hold suspected Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters.

 

Now an appeals court in Paris has released five former Guantanamo inmates.

 

Šaltinis: Reuters
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