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	<title><![CDATA[Al-Jazeera Journalist Sami al-Haj Released from Guantanamo]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-worthington/al-jazeera-journalist-sam_b_99728.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>After four and a half months of inexplicable inertia, the US administration has finally seen fit to release another group of prisoners from Guant&Atilde;&iexcl;namo, including the Sudanese al-Jazeera cameraman and journalist Sami al-Haj. Despite claims from within the administration that it was hoping to scale down the operation at Guant&Atilde;&iexcl;namo, no prisoners have been released since December 2007, when two other <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-worthington/the-shocking-stories-of-h_b_76959.html">Sudanese prisoners</a>, 13 <a href="http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2007/12/22/the-stories-of-the-afghans-just-released-from-Guant&Atilde;&iexcl;namo-intelligence-failures-battlefield-myths-and-unaccountable-prisons-in-afghanistan-part-one/">Afghans</a>, ten <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-worthington/who-are-the-ten-saudis-ju_b_80458.html">Saudis</a> and three <a href="http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2007/12/21/the-Guant&Atilde;&iexcl;namo-britons-and-spains-dubious-extradition-request/">British residents</a> were released. </p>

<p>Instead, one prisoner...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2008-05-09T05:12:00-04:00</date_published>
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