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US set to release 140 inmates from Guantanamo: reports.
(From Agence France Presse)
The United States has plans to release scores of prisoners at its Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba for al-Qaeda and Taliban detainees, according to reports.
A US military officials told Time magazine that it would release 140 inmates from its detention center in Cuba, in the face of mounting international criticism of the legal limbo that has left them without access to legal representation.
A US military official told the magazine that the detainees slated for release are "the easiest 20 percent" of the estimated 660 people kept at Guantanamo Bay, which the United States has leased from Cuba since 1903.
US officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that some of the detainees had been captured by Afghan warlords and sold for the bounty offered by Washington for al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters.
"Many would not have been detained under the normal rules of engagement," the source told the weekly.
"We're dealing with some very, very dangerous people, but the pendulum is swinging too far in the wrong direction."
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