Release
On 21 October 2008 US District Court Judge Richard J. Leon ordered the release of the 5 Algerians held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the continued detention of a sixth, Belkacem Bensayah. The Court ruled: "To allow enemy combatancy to rest on so thin a reed would be inconsistent with this court's obligation; the court must and will grant their petitions and order their release. This is a unique case. Few if any others will be factually like it. Nobody should be lulled into a false sense that all of the ... cases will look like this one."
Three of the six men were released and flown to Bosnia late in the fall of 2008, leaving three behind in Guantanamo, two rejected by Bosnia and fearing for their lives in Algeria, one, Belkacar, still detained as a terrorist. On March 3, 2009, El Khabar reported that the Bush administration forced the men to sign undertakings that they would not sue the US government for their kidnapping, before they would be released.
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