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7 Guantanamo Prisoners To Be Released

The U.S. has agreed to free 7 Guantanamo Detainees.

The seven are Pakistanis whom the Government has identified as neither being terrorists nor able to provide any intelligence information. They are the first prisoners the U.S. has agreed to release since January when it opened the prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Pakistan is considered an ally in our war on terror. Sources say that prisoners from Kuwait, which is also considered an ally, may be freed next. Rumseld has already signed off on the release.

"The decision follows 10 months of outcry from human rights groups and some foreign governments about the indefinite detention without charges of hundreds of unidentified people apprehended abroad in the U.S. war on terror. Some advocates have also protested the conditions under which the detainees are being held and have said the inmates should either be charged criminally or released."

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