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| India-Pakistan |
| Pakistanis 'sold' 18 Uighurs to US |
| 2007-02-01 |
| Eighteen Uighur Chinese, 13 of whom are now in solitary confinement at a prison camp in Guantanamo, were delivered to the US by Pakistani bounty hunters. According to a Washington Post report, the Muslim Chinese dissidents were “sold for bounty by Pakistanis in 2002”. The men had just arrived from Afghanistan, where they said they had received limited military training because they opposed the Chinese government control of their native region. They said they were never aligned with the Taliban or the Al Qaeda. Five of the Uighurs were released in 2005 by a military review panel. A US court said that the men were being held unlawfully because they were not “combatants”. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 So did we get a deal or not? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2007-02-01 11:32 |
| #2 Ok so lets put these poor misunderstood Chinese on a first class flight to China with our upmost apologies. We are soooooo sory and don't forget to say hi to the guards that will be waiting for you when you arrive! |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2007-02-01 09:45 |
| #1 'where they said they had received limited military training because they opposed the Chinese government control of their native region" is that the new story? Their lawyer was on the CBC news show that our NPR station carries, and he said they were just hanging around innocently, waiting to get visas to Turkey (where theres an Uighur community) and were up on the Paki-Afghan frontier cause its a cheap place to live and they could get work in construction. Next thing, we'll be hearing that they were doing a special for National Geographic, or that they were working for Taiwanese Intelligence. |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2007-02-01 09:06 |