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Uighur detainees at Guantanamo pose a problem for Obama

 

Published 2/18/2009 at L.A. Times - Politics

The administration, already viewed with suspicion by Beijing, doesn't want to send the soon-to-be-freed ethnic separatists back to China -- which is demanding just that. > Hozaifa Parhat, a fruit seller from China's Muslim west, spoke passionately before a Guantanamo tribunal about his love for America and swore he never planned to fight the United States. (link)

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