Albania takes Guantanamo Uighurs
Five Chinese Muslim men have been released from the US detention centre in Guantanamo Bay and flown to Albania for resettlement, the US says.
US officials had concluded the ethnic Uighers represented no danger but did not want to return them to China for fear they would face persecution.
Uighurs are seeking a homeland in the western Chinese province of Xinjiang.
The US State Department called Albania's offer to resettle the men, "an important humanitarian gesture".
The five men were among around 20 Chinese Uighurs held at Guantanamo Bay detention centre in Cuba, along with some 470 other inmates.
'Incredible news'
Two of the men, Abu Bakker Qassim and A'del Abdu al-Hakim, had taken their bid for freedom all the way to the US Supreme Court.
They had been forced to remain in the camp even though the US military determined a year ago they were not "enemy combatants" as had been thought when they were captured in Pakistan in 2001.
CHINA'S UIGHURS
Ethnically Turkic Muslims, mainly in Xinjiang
Made bid for independent state in 1940s
Sporadic violence in Xinjiang since 1991
Uighurs worried about Chinese immigration and erosion of traditional culture
The Bush administration did not want to admit them to the US, and was seeking another country to take them.
Their case was due to be heard again at a lower court on Monday.
The move to Albania meant the US government could, "avoid having to answer in court for keeping innocent men in jail," lawyer Barbara Olshansky said.
The Uighur-American Association called the men's release "incredible news".
"It's all been very sudden and unexpected, but we understand that all five men are healthy and happy to be free, if a little bewildered by events," Nury Turkel, the association's president, said.
China has insisted that its nationals held at Guantanamo Bay on suspicion of terrorism should be returned.
Beijing has frequently cracked down on Uighur dissidents.
It accuses Uighur militants of waging a bombing and assassination campaign, and receiving training at al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan.
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The U.A. (United Albanian States), the U.S. and the U.K. forever!!!!
YEEEEHAAAAAA WOO WOO WOO!!!!
ALRIGHT!!!
Go Albanian go!
You do know why they weren't sent to Scum Manifest right?? HAHA, they would be hanged, massacre, and bombs would have been thrown at them (like in Vojvodina).
LONG Live SHQIPE (2 headed EAGLE)!!!!!
sure, albania is a mecca...where muslim extremists can hide out.
..so the albanian lackeys take america's human excrement? The US knows where to dump such muslim scum....
Look who is talking cum-suck. I noticed your name is suppose to mean Shqiptar (Albanian). Too bad go find your own identity, heck go kill yourself. Just so you know in Hague called they want to speak to you.
HAHA
RROFT Shqiponja
Please don't honor low-lives with a response. Let them wonder in their cyberspace. This is not a competition for the worst trash talker.
I was acctually talking about you.Can't you tell who is the low life in this forum?
Call the police and suck my dick. Fucking Albo shiptari dumb asses, if you could do anything without swallowing a load of semon perhaps the world would respect you as a nation, but all you are and ever will be is a pile of ass raped turk mutts. You did the same to turkey by sucking on their cock and embracing their religion. You people have no respect or pride, only know how to bend over to the newest power. Yeah, keep it up oh proud people of the recieving end of an ass ramming ahaha
So you who stand for a higher ideal is just the same you hypocrit. Admit you are here to try and befriend the Albo's while behind their back you stick it in their ass, and when they find out, they like it so much they come back for more...
most of the serbians are hypocrits. They support genocide
Most of the Shiptaris are Faggots the support dicks in their ass...
Haha, good response. The funny thing is, that you can say all you want about Serbia, it is still more economically developed than Albania and has a lot more potential. So id watch what you say, because the way things are heading now for Kosovo's economy, Serbia's is looking much better. That is, if your economy survives at all in the upcoming years...
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