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The Pentagon plans to release nearly a third of the prisoners being held at the Guantánamo Bay naval base because they have been found to pose no terror threat. Only 10 of the approximately 490 “enemy combatants” in custody there have been charged with a crime. The prison has faced accusations of abuse, and the United Nations has called for it to be shut down. The Pentagon says it always intended to release prisoners who were deemed not to be a threat; a leading interrogator said last year that most of the detainees had no further intelligence value.
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