THE NATION - News from May 5, 2009
Times Wire Reports
A federal judge ordered a Yemeni man released from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, after seven years’ detention.
U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler said the U.S. should take all necessary diplomatic steps to release Alla Ali Bin Ali Ahmed. He was picked up seven years ago by Pakistani forces in a prayer house that the government said was run by a high-ranking Al Qaeda operative. The judge gave the government until June 15 to report on the status of his release.
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