Muslim Chinese Uighurs Terrorists Released in U.S.

U.S. District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina today ordered that seventeen Chinese Uighur Muslims held at the Guantanamo Bay military prison be released into the United States by Friday. It was the first time that a U.S. court has ordered the release of a Guantanamo detainee, and the first time that a foreign national held there has been ordered brought to the United States. This is a landmark ruling paving the way for former enemy combatants to be released into the U.S. Urbina said that "the Constitution prohibits indefinite detention without cause." The group has been released into the custody of Uighur families in Washington.