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Russian Taliban in Guantanamo: Will Washington Deliver Them?
Tuesday, April 2, 2002
(14:57)
By Dmitry Litvinovich
Pravda.ru

Translated by Dmitry Sudakov

Russian Defense Minister Sergey Ivanov officially confirmed yesterday that there are three Russian citizens among the captive Taliban at the Guantanamo base. This information is not a breaking piece of news. The Americans are not at all willing to let anyone attend the base after the recent scandal, when representatives of international organizations visited the base and saw the horrible conditions in which the prisoners were live.

However, there was an exception made for Russia. The collaborators of the Russian Office of the Prosecutor General recently visited the base. Sergey Fridinsky, deputy Prosecutor General, confirmed that there were Russian nationals among those prisoners of the Guantanamo base. Fridinsky clamed that Russia would strive for their release. The names of the Russian prisoners of Guantanamo have been identified: two of them come from Central Russia, and the third one is of Caucasian origin.
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Dmitry should probably not hold his breath for their release:
* U.S. 'Has Every Right' to Hold Detainees, Says Rumsfeld (even if military commissions acquit them of specific crimes)
Gerry J. Gilmore -- American Forces Press Service
Sunday, March 28, 2002

Dan