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Guantanamo ex-prisoners get jobs on golf courseArticle Link: Wed Aug 5, 2009 4:32pm EDT HAMILTON (Reuters) - Four Guantanamo prisoners who were released to Bermuda in June have been given jobs tending a public golf course on the tiny Atlantic island.The four members of China's Muslim Uighur minority began working last week to help prepare the lush, seaside Port Royal course to host the PGA Grand Slam of Golf in October.Former Guantanamo detainees Ablakim Turahun, left, and Abdulla Abdul
August 6, 2009
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Bermuda diki Uyghur ResimlerFrom left to right: Helil Mamut (Abdul Nasser), Ablikim Turahun (Huzaifa Parhat), Salahidin Abdulahat (Abdul Semet), and Abdulla Abduqadir (Jalal Jalalidin). (Photo courtesy of Rushan Abbas)Source: UAA
June 15, 2009
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Out of Guantánamo, Uighurs Bask in Bermuda
The New York Times
June 15, 2009
By ERIK ECKHOLM
ST. GEORGE, Bermuda — Almost exactly seven years after arriving at Guantánamo in chains as accused enemy combatants, and four days after their surprise predawn flight to Bermuda, four Uighur Muslim men basked in their new-found freedom here, grateful for the handshakes many residents had offered and marveling at the serene beauty of this tidy, postcard island.
In newly purchased polo shirts
June 15, 2009
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Guantánamo Uighurs hope to open restaurant in millionaires’ paradise
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From The TimesJune 15, 2009
For seven long years in Guantánamo Bay prison camp in Cuba, the four Central Asian friends gazed longingly at the azure sea from their cells. They were never allowed through the razor wire to paddle in the water.
Now, suddenly set free in Bermuda, the former terror suspects can watch the ocean at leisure from the pastel-pink clifftop holiday cottage where they are
June 15, 2009
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'We'd never heard of al Qaeda'
By Jonathan Kent
Published: June 13. 2009 06:35AM
Freedon:Abdulla Abdulqadir, Salahidin Abdulahad, Khalil Manut, and Ablikim Turahun spent more than seven years in the United States' prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The four Chinese Muslims released from Guantánamo Bay to come to Bermuda say they had never even heard of al Qaeda until they arrived at the US prison camp where they have been confined for the past seven years.
And in an interview with The Ro
June 13, 2009
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After 7 years at Gitmo, resettled Uyghurs grateful for freedom
June 12, 2009 -- Updated 0232 GMT (1032 HKT)
HAMILTON, Bermuda (CNN) -- Two of four Uyghurs relocated to Bermuda after seven years of detention in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, denied Friday that they had ever been terrorists, and expressed gratitude toward President Obama for working to free them.
Asked what he would say to someone who accused him of being a terrorist, one of the men, Kheleel Mamut, told CNN's Don Lemon, "I am no t
June 13, 2009
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[RESIMLIK] Bermuda diki Uyghurlar
Fury in China and U.K. as BDA goes out on a limb to accept Guantanamo detainees
Bermuda has been thrust into an international political firestorm by allowing four former prisoners of Guantanamo Bay to take refuge on the island. The move is likely to garner favour with President Obama, who has been desperate to find homes for former inmates after promising to close Guantanamo by January.
However, the Chinese government is furious, and says the U.S. should ex
June 12, 2009
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