4 of the 6 Guantanamo prisoners enjoy freedom in Uruguay
Four of the
six men released this week more than a decade incarcerated in
Guantanamo Bay took their first walk in freedom on Friday Dec 12,2014, stopping to
buy a bit of cheese and bread on a stroll through Uruguay's capital.
The
men - four Syrians, a Tunisian and a Palestinian - are staying at a
house in a middle class neighborhood as guests of a major labor union,
which has been asked to help by President Jose Mujica.
The
union's executive secretary, Gabriel Melgareo, said Friday that four of
them managed to elude journalists and went on a 6-mile walk along the
banks of the Rio de la Plata on Thursday Dec 11,2014
Note
The six,
who had spent more than a dozen years at the U.S. Navy base in Cuba,
arrived Monday in Uruguay, which agreed to take them as refugees.
They
had been detained as suspected militants with ties to al-Qaeda in 2002
but were never charged. They had been cleared for release since 2009 but
could not be sent home and the U.S. struggled to find countries willing
to take them.
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