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Pakistanis 'sold' 18 Uighurs to US
Eighteen Uighur Chinese, 13 of whom are now in solitary confinement at a prison camp in Guantanamo, were delivered to the US by Pakistani bounty hunters. According to a Washington Post report, the Muslim Chinese dissidents were sold for bounty by Pakistanis in 2002. The men had just arrived from Afghanistan, where they said they had received limited military training because they opposed the Chinese government control of their native region. They said they were never aligned with the Taliban or the Al Qaeda. Five of the Uighurs were released in 2005 by a military review panel. A US court said that the men were being held unlawfully because they were not combatants. Posted by: Fred 2007-02-01 |
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