Algeria acquits two former Guantanamo Bay detainees

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Source: BBC

Two Algerian men held at Guantanamo Bay for seven years on terror charges have been acquitted at a trial on being returned home, state media report.

Faghoul Abdelli and Mohamed Terari were arrested in Afghanistan by Pakistani police after the 11 September 2001 attacks on the US, reports said.

They both denied having any connection to militant groups and said they were "brutally tortured" in US custody.

Algeria's state prosecutor had called for a 20-year jail term for the men.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8373544.stm

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1. I hope they sue the pants off the US

for stealing 7 years of their lives, and forcing them to live in a nightmare environment.

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2. K&R