US judge orders release of five Guantanamo detainees
US judge rules that five Algerians held at Guantanamo Bay should be released
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Friday, 21, Nov 2008 12:16
A US judge has ruled that five Algerians held for nearly seven years at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba should be released.
District Judge Richard Leon said the US government had failed to prove the men who had been living in Bosnia had been planning on travelling to Afghanistan to fight against US forces.
US president George Bush said in 2002 that the men had been planning an attack on the US embassy in Sarajevo.
The five men are Lakhdar Boumediene, Mohamed Nechla, Mustafa Ait Idir, Saber Lahmar and Hadj Boudella.
The court ruled that there was enough evidence to hold a sixth man Belkacem Bensayah.
In June the US supreme court ruled the detainees had the legal right to contest their imprisonment and rejected prosecution claims they were planning on joining al-Qaida in Afghanistan.