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Defend America on Monday, December 21, 2009 9:32:54 AM
12 Guantanamo detainees freed; captive count at 8-year low
The United States freed a dozen men from Guantanamo this week --
including one of the last captives sent there by the Bush
administration -- in a mission that dropped detainees off in Yemen,
Afghanistan and the Horn of Africa.
The dozen included six Yemenis, four Afghans and two Somali citizens.
Their departure left the prison camp census at 198 on Saturday -- the
first time the detention center dropped below 200 captives since
February 2002.
Defense
and Justice Department officials Saturday refused to comment on the
massive transfer, a portion of which was reported by The Washington
Post on Friday as a potential "prelude to the release of dozens more
detainees to Yemen'' at a time of gathering Republican resistance to
the White House plan to move other detainees to Thomson, Ill.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/255/story/80994.html