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Slovakia offers home to three Guantanamo prisoners

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byTom Nicholson of The Slovak Spectator

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Slovakia offers home to three Guantanamo prisoners

In this photo, reviewed by the US military, a Guantanamo detainee walks inside the open-air yard at Camp 4 detention facility at Guantanamo Bay US Naval Base, Cuba, May 31 2009.

Three prisoners from the controversial US prison at Guantanamo Bay will be resettled in Slovakia this year following an agreement between the Slovak and US governments.

At a press conference in Bratislava on January 19, Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajčiak said that none of the three were suspected terrorists, nor had any ever been charged with a crime.

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