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To: Elroy who wrote (200157)	8/30/2006 2:25:34 AM
From: Elroy	Respond to of 281500

Published: 08/30/2006 12:00 AM (UAE) Saudi Arabia frees nine Guantanamo returnees Reuters gulfnews.com Riyadh: Saudi Arabia has released nine former inmates of the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay where they were being held on suspicion of belonging to Al Qaida, an official said on Tuesday. The United States this year sent 29 Saudis back home after negotiating a framework agreement with Saudi Arabia for the return of its citizens. Saudi officials had said they were reviewing whether they should face charges in their homeland. "Nine of them have been released. They were investigated and we didn't find any wrongdoing in relation to local laws," said Interior Ministry spokesman Mansour Al Turki. "There is no evidence [against them]," he said, adding that there is no agreement with Washington obliging Saudi Arabia to keep them incarcerated. He gave no more details. About 95 of the 450 men still held at Guantanamo are Saudi citizens and the government has said it hopes to bring all of them back within a year. Many of the men held at the prison in Cuba were captured in Afghanistan in the US-led war to oust the Taliban after Al Qaida carried out the September 11, 2001, attacks against US cities. Two Saudis are among 10 Guantanamo prisoners who have been charged with war crimes in a tribunal system which the US Supreme Court struck down in June. Public anger over the treatment of the Saudi detainees has been high. Two Saudis were among the three prisoners who hanged themselves in June at the controversial prison, which lies outside the jurisdiction of international law. Many Saudis suspect they died from maltreatment.