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3 Algerians held at Guantanamo are released to Bosnia

 
The move may mean the Bush White House has come to accept that its Guantanamo tactics are finally doomed. > In the Bush administration's first bow to a court directive to release prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the Department of Defense flew three Algerians to their adopted homeland of Bosnia-Herzegovina on Tuesday. (link)

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