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Blog Entries by Andy Worthington from 02/2010

Swiss Take Two Guantanamo Uighurs, Solve Obama's Problem

| Posted 02.04.2010 | Politics
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Obama is fortunate to have such kind allies, but he himself is the loser, the longer he refuses to tackle those who insist, in the face of overwhelming evidence, that everyone who was held at Guantánamo was a "terrorist."

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Who Are the Four Prisoners Released from Guantanamo to Albania and Spain?

| Posted 02.25.2010 | Politics
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The majority of the men held at Guantánamo had no involvement with terrorism. Of the three men rehoused in Albania, one was a businessman, living in Europe, who had traveled to Afghanistan to provide humanitarian aid.

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