17 Guantanamo Inmates to Be Released in DC on Friday?

Jan Crawford Greenburg writes "Terrorists" Among Us?: "Expect a flurry of legal moves today over a federal judge’s unprecedented decision yesterday to order 17 former “enemy combatants” at Guantanamo Bay released unsupervised into the Washington, D.C. area by Friday."

"The Uighurs (which is pronounced ‘WEE-gers’) are a group of Chinese Muslim separatists who had weapons training in Afghanistan under the Taliban, as part of their effort to fight for independence from China. They were picked up in Afghanistan and Pakistan after September 11th and taken to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where they have been imprisoned nearly seven years.

The government no longer considers them ‘enemy combatants’ and would like to release them. But it can’t send them to China, where they would be tortured, and no other country will take them. So what is there to do with the Uighers—and, by extension, about 60 other detainees at Guantanamo in a similar position?"